Comment on The Tesla Backlash Is Biblical

• BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I don’t know why you think the number of followers gives religion any legitimacy. I’m sure your ancestors thought slavery was A okay or treating women as property was the right thing to do, history remembers them for the barbarians they were, just cause a lot of people hold some superstitious belief means nothing to me. There’s a reason people are becoming less religious and church attendance has been dropping on average decade after decade, I don’t see that trend changing direction, at least until WW3 or climate change fuck up society enough that praying for magic man in the sky is the only thing left for desperate people to do

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  • ogmios@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    We’re talking about how many people respect the Bible, not whether or not it’s legitimate.

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    • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      How does followers of a religion equal to respect, most people are born and raised into some religion, they didn’t chose said religions, and they either partially or completely disconnected from it but if asked what their religion is would still say it’s XYZ, cause not many wanna deal with religious lunatics and their antics if you say you agnostic or atheist, I still claim to be part of the religion I was born into if asked, doesn’t mean I follow it. Also if the people who explicitly claim to be a part of this religion they respect, maybe they wouldn’t help pedophiles rape children

      …wikipedia.org/…/Catholic_Church_sexual_abuse_cas…

      Cause I doubt your god would find that respectful, or the millions of other atrocities committed by the millions of other religions and followers.

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      • superkret@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        dude, you’re barking up the wrong tree.

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      • ogmios@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        How does followers of a religion equal to respect

        Christianity isn’t like Islam where you’re disowned (and often murdered) for the crime of leaving. People who were born into a Christian family but don’t respect the religion can simply choose not to follow it anymore (with the notable exception of a few cults, but they hardly make up the whole). And once again, even many non-believers still have respect for the message of love and peace which Jesus championed.

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