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Comment on Reedit taking down any post slightly critical of Islam.

Obviously I can understand not liking it when people single out one group and ignore another. But am I correct in understanding that you’re saying you like people more for “hating” groups of people who are different to you? Don’t get me wrong, there are without question aspects of certain religions which are harmful. But saying that hating every religious person is a good thing is way over the top. Everyone deserves to be respected and treated well, not hated because of their beliefs.

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crapwittyname@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Careful- they only talked about hatred of religion, not the religious. A subtle but enormous difference!

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- WiseMoth@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You’re absolutely right. That is a very important distinction to make. One which I think should be more actively emphasised. There are absolutely people who hate people for being religious. Definitely want to clarify to make it clearer what is meant
  
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  - crapwittyname@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    There are absolutely people who hate people for being religious.
    
    Can you point to one? I don’t see any.
    
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    WiseMoth@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Are you suggesting that there is not one single person who hates religious people? All I’m saying is that people should accept other people and leave them to believe what they want to believe. I don’t think any reasonable person would disagree with that freedom
    
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needthosepylons@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
P.S. : I wrote a detailed thread about this here : lemmy.world/post/2739891

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needthosepylons@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Hmm. If I meet people who are deeply anti religious, I prefer them to show hatred equally to all of them. So I know there’s no ethno-cultural aspect ti their hatred and it’s strictly philosophical. I also understand specific reject based on life experiences.

Overall, I feel better around people who are at least a little open to understanding some people want to believe in something and not necessarily belittling religion. But I deeply resent people who aggressively tried to convert me too their religion. And I’d never try to make someone who believes an atheist.

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- WiseMoth@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Well said! I think I agree with pretty much all of that
  
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- needthosepylons@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Although I’m not totally satisfied with what I wrote. I may write a new thread about all this whenever I have time to think about it better.
  
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