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There is a lot on this thread of the usual “just look how nasty religion is”. I think basically you can cherry pick facts about democracy and reach the same co
by rich_sasha 6y ago
There is a lot on this thread of the usual “just look how nasty religion is”.
I think basically you can cherry pick facts about democracy and reach the same conclusions. Just look what western democracies did in the Middle East, what’s happening (and who is the president) in America. It’s an instrument of oppression and nothing else, just a way for the powerful to amass power.
It’s misguided and painfully selective. Sure, plenty of people use religion / democracy for nefarious goals. This does not even commence to assess their wider utility.
The answer to improving both is usually education. It’s not religious people as such who prosecute blasphemers, it is uneducated people, or those looking to whip up their support.
- dvfjsdhgfv 6y agoThe Western civilization has several problems, but the freedom of speech is incomparable. The maximum punishment you can get for not embracing diversity, LGBT rights and so on is getting fired and public ostracism. I haven't heard of anyone jailed for saying that there is a distribution of certain traits between the two sexes and so on.
- rich_sasha 6y agoI’m not in any way supporting the sentence, or anything about it. It’s the extension of “hence all religion is evil” is wrong. You could say, hey look democracies wage all these nasty wars. Killing people is the ultimate bad thing, and North Korea isn’t doing it, so communism must be better. It’s not, and yes killing people is bad.