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>> And I stress how cultural it is: it is often noted that in Japan religion is not treated as such a tribe, culturally, and that Japanese persons often find it
by radycov 6y ago
>> And I stress how cultural it is: it is often noted that in Japan religion is not treated as such a tribe, culturally, and that Japanese persons often find it curious how residents of other cultures can owe a lifelong fealty to a single religion rather than experiencing elements of multiple religions as it be suitable.
You seem to conveniently ignore the blindingly simple context that for the past 20 years, America has been bombing and invading a single region of the world in the name of evangelical fanatics from the bible belt.
And that's looking past the Gulf Wars and Afghanistan where America created and armed the Taliban. It's not snowflake grievance culture to suggest there is a targetted religion here.
- Blikkentrekker 6y agoI fail to see how that is even related to that what is considered such a fealty one owes lifelong allegiance to differs from culture to culture.
- radycov 6y agoLarge swathes of the target population are run by dictators funded by America's geopolitical strategic initiatives. We are agreed in some sense: religion is a unifying cause which leads to irrational tribalism. The point is these are societies that have constantly been interfered with due to western military adventures and it's quite easy to unify a rallying cause. Not least in immigrant populations resident in the West, such as myself.