• @[email protected]
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    302 years ago

    Theres a few problems with this random graph. Wouldn’t be surprised if it was just made up

  • @[email protected]
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    142 years ago

    Who the fuck knows. Stupid shit like this that barely even makes sense is why Elron is famed for being an incredibly pretentious but dim tool.

  • MxM111
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    Every religion is a belief system, but not every belief system a religion.

    Every billionaire Elon Musk is an idiot, but not every idiot billionaire Elon Musk.

    • Jaysyn
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      If someone is yelling obscenities at you

      All religion is obscene.

      • Nepenthe
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        I know you’re trolling and indeed fuck the rest, but…buddhist monks? Pretty hard to have beef with. No pun intended.

        I guess you could make the case that encouraging indifference towards suffering breeds a whole different class of sociopathy, but even then, at least they’re the least destructive they can possibly be by just never touching anything.

          • Nepenthe
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            Well. “Extremist” and “nationalist” were never words I thought I would see attached to the phrase buddhist monk, but here we are, I fucking guess. That’s a thing that I know now.

            I’m about to just eschew anything bipedal at this point. Two legs bad.

            • @[email protected]
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              72 years ago

              And on a related note, zen buddhists have a pretty vile subsect that is entwined with Japanese militarism and has been for centuries. However there are a lot of buddhists who are really good people, and lots of buddhist sects likewise. As with almost all religions, it depends on the particular flavor of ideology they have adopted.

    • @[email protected]
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      42 years ago

      Go set theory!

      Religion is a subset of the set of belief systems.

      Elon Musk is a member of the set of billionaires. We could define a set with one member, Elon Musk. It would be a subset of billionaires.

  • MxM111
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    How is being atheist and being woke even related? Is it one of those “god hate gays”?

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    I thought the point of Atheism was to escape the alleged intolerant nature of religion.

    No. Atheism has no point. It’s merely the default, catch-all, left-over position. Anyone who isn’t convinced any religion’s gods are real, becomes an atheist automatically, simply for a lack of any other option.

    The Jedi and Sith, are both atheist.

    • Scrubbles
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      Religious people really don’t understand atheism or agnosticism. It’s not like we just have a coming out ceremony where we take a bible and burn it, it’s just “You know, I don’t know if I believe that god is real…”. They make it out to be that we all gather in groups every sunday to talk about it… but we just sleep in. We don’t usually even label ourselves because the label is itself irrelevant. We don’t have a religion, that’s it. You all believe in something, that’s great, we don’t. That’s literally all there is to it.

  • @[email protected]
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    Why is there a “Nothing” under the beliefs? Wouldn’t that fall under “Agnostic”?

  • Carighan Maconar
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    TIL that >70% of christians/mormons/other-santa-for-adults-cults would not try to get rid of hatepreachers on campus. Wow. Bleak.

  • DarkGamer
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    FIRE files lawsuits against colleges and universities that it perceives as curtailing First Amendment rights of students and professors. FIRE has been described as a competitor of the ACLU. In 2021, the organization had an annual revenue of $16.1 million. …
    FIRE has received major funding from groups which primarily support conservative and libertarian causes, including the Bradley Foundation, Sarah Scaife Foundation, and the Charles Koch Institute.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_for_Individual_Rights_and_Expression

    Still, a lot of the cases they fight for seem to be all over the political spectrum.

  • @[email protected]
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    Some replace various religions with a worship of money. Usually they are better at managing it. How much has the ‘X’ formerly known as Twitter lost, btw?

  • @[email protected]
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    32 years ago

    I think most would cite something like the paradox of intolerance - you need a bit of intolerance of intolerance to sustain any tolerance.

    I bet the Christian stat would have been higher in the past too, when they were on the front foot and the controversial speaker was less likely to be someone they agreed with.

    • Match!!
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      I would cite that shouting back is also free speech

    • @[email protected]
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      12 years ago

      Oh yeah we’ve never had any problems with large atheist-run organized mass shootings 🙄

      • @[email protected]
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        112 years ago

        If you took an informed look on history, you’d realize that religious killings happen far more often and far more wide reaching than ones motivated by atheism.

          • @[email protected]
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            12 years ago

            Which atheist mass killings were there? Racist killings by someone who happened to be an atheist don’t count because the religion was not the driving force in those cases.

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          Mother fucker up there acting like he ain’t ever heard of the crusades, Spanish inquisition, Salem witch trials, or the genocide of the Buddhist population in tiabet to name a few, though the Buddhist population genocide could be argued as atheist since it was perpetrated by CCP who don’t believe in most religions.

          • @[email protected]
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            And you’re acting like you never heard of the Holocaust, the GULAG, or the Great Leap Forward.

            • @[email protected]
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              12 years ago

              Oh no I quite have, no where did I say people wont find ways to kill each other. But religion isn’t the bloodless doctrine it portrays itself to be. But since you mentioned the Holocaust it is arguable that was a religious motivated event as people saw Hitler as a infallible god. Nazi ism was their religion and nazis even messed with the occult.

          • @[email protected]
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            It’s not an atheist genocide when it’s not motivated by atheism. People can follow more than one doctrine. An ultra nationalist can go to church but an attack on foreigners would be a nationalist motive and not a Christian one.

            • @[email protected]
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              12 years ago

              It’s not an atheist genocide when it’s not motivated by atheism.

              How would you define “motivated by atheism” here?

              • @[email protected]
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                The desire to wipe out religious people in general and that was not a big thing in history. What’s more common is the desire to wipe out “heretics”.

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      32 years ago

      To be fair this is fake af, agnostics might question the person, but shouting out of stage without making questions first seems very odd for that specific category.

      Cuz when you got to the point in life where you know you don’t really know shit nothing you kinda are more tolerant to new ideas and new concepts I would guess

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        “It wasn’t about slavery!”

        Texas’ articles of secession name slavery as a main cause twelve times. Georgia’s calls abolitionism “heresy” and Mississippi, bless them, referred to it with “a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization,” before going even further with such quotes as

        [The US government] refuses the admission of new slave States into the Union, and seeks to extinguish it by confining it within its present limits, denying the power of expansion.

        It tramples the original equality of the South under foot.

        Which I am only leaving here because somebody wrote that, meant it, and sent it off, and it is insane to read.

        Fortunately for Mississippi, their constituents can’t.