Fuck people who impose their religious values onto others. Fuck people who feel superior due to their beliefs and try to help others “discover the truths” and “the incorrectness of their ways”. But religions don’t hurt people (at least the major world religions), it’s people who do that. And for every religious prick, there’s two others who genuinely gain something from their beliefs and aren’t weird about it.
I think questioning a religion itself doesn’t make sense, since all religions are irrational in some way and most of the time you can read whatever the fuck you want into the religious texts, but religious leadership deserves all the scrutiny in the world. Fuck the Vatican’s anti-queer rhetoric, fuck all of the pedophile priests and fuck all of the Islamists who are trying to turn the irrational into law.
So I guess what I’m trying to say is that we should differentiate between religions and religious assholes, lest we risk imposing the same kind of repression onto others that we are trying to protect ourselves against. And that includes acting superior to others because they believe something that we deem irrational. It would be a merrier world, could more people just keep their hands out of other’s business. Which is something the mother in this post did not understand, so fuck her, but also let’s be better than her.
Whoa that’s a lot of text I wrote just now. It’s not even really an answer to your comment anymore, but that’s what I believe in, in case anybody cares.
I would never pre-judge anyone based on only knowing their religion, because most people manage to reconcile their holy books with modern society, but I think it’s wrong to say religions don’t hurt people.
The misogyny and the homophobia are there, in the books, plain as day. How many queer people have grown up wracked with guilt over own “sinfulness”, and put themselves through conversion therapy because of all the vile shit they internalised from those books? How many women stay with abusive men because God says wives should obey their husbands and divorce is a sin?
I’ve met lots of lovely Christians and Muslims, but they’re lovely despite the religion AFAIAC.
Don’t discriminate against the ethnicity. All religions deserve scrutiny especially when they hurt people.
Fuck people who impose their religious values onto others. Fuck people who feel superior due to their beliefs and try to help others “discover the truths” and “the incorrectness of their ways”. But religions don’t hurt people (at least the major world religions), it’s people who do that. And for every religious prick, there’s two others who genuinely gain something from their beliefs and aren’t weird about it.
I think questioning a religion itself doesn’t make sense, since all religions are irrational in some way and most of the time you can read whatever the fuck you want into the religious texts, but religious leadership deserves all the scrutiny in the world. Fuck the Vatican’s anti-queer rhetoric, fuck all of the pedophile priests and fuck all of the Islamists who are trying to turn the irrational into law.
So I guess what I’m trying to say is that we should differentiate between religions and religious assholes, lest we risk imposing the same kind of repression onto others that we are trying to protect ourselves against. And that includes acting superior to others because they believe something that we deem irrational. It would be a merrier world, could more people just keep their hands out of other’s business. Which is something the mother in this post did not understand, so fuck her, but also let’s be better than her.
Whoa that’s a lot of text I wrote just now. It’s not even really an answer to your comment anymore, but that’s what I believe in, in case anybody cares.
I would never pre-judge anyone based on only knowing their religion, because most people manage to reconcile their holy books with modern society, but I think it’s wrong to say religions don’t hurt people.
The misogyny and the homophobia are there, in the books, plain as day. How many queer people have grown up wracked with guilt over own “sinfulness”, and put themselves through conversion therapy because of all the vile shit they internalised from those books? How many women stay with abusive men because God says wives should obey their husbands and divorce is a sin?
I’ve met lots of lovely Christians and Muslims, but they’re lovely despite the religion AFAIAC.
Definitely also a fair take