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MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 3 weeks agoThe only reason for that is the many genocides perpetrated against members of other religions. Especially in places like Australia and the Americas where Christians were bloodthirsty invaders. By equating the two, all you’re doing is continuing the work of conquistadores and other murderous colonisers.
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Europeans regularly killed other Europeans, who were Christian. The natives could have met them at the shore with a stack of bibles and the colonizers still would have slaughtered them.
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
It sounds like you’re saying religious genocide doesn’t matter because it would have happened anyway.
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I’m saying it was European colonial genocide, religion was secondary, and yes it would have happened anyway
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I don’t care about motivation or how a bunch of murderers felt, I care about the victims of genocide and the loss of massive religious diversity. Don’t you care about that too? Or is the only thing that matters to you what the conquistadores “intended” while they were raping girls and destroying villages?