• sir_pronoun@lemmy.worldEnglish
    08·
    4 months ago

    Ever heard of the age of enlightenment? Holy hell. Also, you can make jokes about Christianity publicly without having to fear for your life. Lots of preachers have problems with their churches and are progressives. What is wrong with you people.

    • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      That’s the age where we said “all men are equal” while keeping lots of people as slaves, right?

          • sir_pronoun@lemmy.worldEnglish
            07·
            4 months ago

            Please tell me you do see the problem with speaking when you don’t know that the topic even is

            (This whole thread is showing me once again online discussions are pointless)

            • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
              2·
              4 months ago

              Yes, I do see the issue. Maybe don’t bring up the Enlightenment when talking about religion, especially if you don’t want to be held to it.

            • Dasus@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              4 months ago

              Monotheism is a cancer on humanity.

              https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_monotheism#Violence_in_monotheism

              Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan regarded monotheism as a cause of violence, saying:

              The intolerance of narrow monotheism is written in letters of blood across the history of man from the time when first the tribes of Israel burst into the land of Canaan. The worshippers of the one jealous God are egged on to aggressive wars against people of alien [beliefs and cultures]. They invoke divine sanction for the cruelties inflicted on the conquered. The spirit of old Israel is inherited by Christianity and Islam, and it might not be unreasonable to suggest that it would have been better for Western civilization if Greece had moulded it on this question rather than Palestine