• Xatolos@reddthat.com
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    2 days ago

    As Kavanuagh’s comment demonstrated, the Republican-appointed justices seemed to feel that in America today, it is religious people who are the victims of discrimination and whose needs are ignored.

    So the group who are tax exempt and have many of their religious holidays as nationally recognized paid holidays, as well as have had the last 47 presidentail elects be of their religion (not including in other positions of authority), are suddenly victims of discrimination?

  • MochiGoesMeow@lemmy.zip
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    If they’re going to allow religious schools get public funding then churches should pay into taxes.

    Make it at least somewhat fair.

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    3 days ago

    How long do you think it will take for Trump to declare himself as the head of the US religion, the same way Henry VIII did for the Church of England?

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    As a European watching the news, sometimes I have to remind myself that lots of other countries also go to shit from time to time, it just doesn’t get reported on as much. We get a massively disproportionate amount of reporting from the US as a result of how the English-speaking internet works.

    In fact even writing this I just noticed the sidebar’s description of the community I’m posting in, guess I should probably just block it (no offence).

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    Letting Religion run things is how you get the dark ages again. They were called dark for a reason.

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      They’re called dark ages because there’s not much record about it.

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          No, the same goes for archeologic findings.

          It’s believed that some king shifted years to extend his reign on paper.

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            That is a conspiracy theory that can easily be disproven if you look literally anywhere outside of Western Europe. Muhammad started Islam and composed the Qu’ran at the beginning of that time period, and the Islamic calendar begins in 622 AD. According to the Phantom Time theory, basically none of early Islamic history actually existed and it’s a fabrication by… The Pope?! It’s an absurd premise. The Abbasid Caliphate was founded in 750 and still existed in 911, with all sorts of written and archeological evidence in favor, and let’s not forget about the other Roman Empire that existed in that time frame and have their own historical and archeological evidence, including about events that overlapped with Western histories such as Irene of Athens being pressured to marry Charlemagne. Again, it stretches credulity that the Byzantine Emperors and Eastern Church or any Muslims whatsoever would be swayed to fabricate so much of their own history by the Pope. This theory is absurd at best and racist at worst because in erasing so much Western European history it just kind of assumes literally nothing was happening anywhere else in the world either.

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              What does that have to do with anything?

              It just means it might not be 2025 but way earlier right now.

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                Trump thinks he’s a genius king. He’s fired anyone that can stop him. They are replacing entire government departments with AI. He’s just got sick of Elon’s shit and took it over himself. This is where it gets really bumpy.

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    Religion is a belief. School curriculum is made based on facts and experiments over time. They should not be combined.

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      Religion is made up fairytales that adults still believe in.

      Honesty a guy praying to Jebus is no different than a guy shooting hadoukens from his wrists.

      Yet one is called spiritual while the other is called childish…

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    It’s funny that they clearly aren’t considering that religions other than theirs also exist. That’s the whole point of the Separation of Church and State. Your arbitrary religious views have no place in government or governance or public spaces… because others have other beliefs, many of which likely stand in stark contrast to yours, and the permutations are endless. Leaving your religious biases out of public life allows us all to coexist.

    But lets ignore that and see what happens. Looking forward to The Satanic Temple having a presence in all public schools. Maybe muslims can get the Five Pillars and Buddhists can get the Noble Truths… and we’re just getting started.

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      They’re not ignoring it, they’re fully aware, and it’s the whole point. They want an official state religion to suppress all others. They’ve been perfectly willing and able to blatantly ignore facts, evidence, and existing law and jurisprudence to benefit one religion over all others.

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      This part is both mind blowing and hilarious. Not too long ago they were screeching that “they are trying to make everything sharia law!”

      Then they do this, with absolutely no sense of irony. The dumb runs so deep that its turning to magma.

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        The same idiots cheering this on would gaslight me and try to tell me there is “no such thing as xtian Shariah Law” when I’d point out that the talibangelicals very much want xtian Shariah Law here and have been pushing for it for as long as I’ve been alive.

        I know better. Just because (of course) they don’t call it Shariah Law doesn’t mean it isn’t the exact same fucking thing.

        The only reason they hate conservative Muslims so much is that game recognizes game, and let’s face it, if you change up a bit of doctrine, Muslim extremists want almost the exact same things as xtian extremists, and the xtianists have FATWA ENVY like you would not believe. They are very pissed off that more of their flock are not murderous thugs, too.

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    I wasnt going to have kids and the world keeps enforcing my decisions. If I had to deal with religion aimed at my kid I’d actually lose it 💀