I think my post makes it quite clear that I was not referring to people as diseases, I specifically said that religion is the disease. The people are victims to the disease.
And if it isn’t also obvious, I do consider myself an anti-theist. The overall effect of religion on society is negative, and we would be better off without religion. I don’t see what this has to do with “woke mind virus” nonsense.
Those many “private, personal” benign religious people form a strong foundation upon which the crazies, cults, and conmen build their structures.
In my experience, these benign people are one tragedy away from metastasizing into the malignant religious type.
I have cousins who were benign-religious for most of their life, but after a death in the family they started following a new sect of christianity. Their children have never seen a doctor, nor a vaccine.
I agree people are entitled to their personal freedoms, but we would be much better off as a society if we could educate our way out of the cancer that is religion.
Anyone who seriously looks at history would agree that yes, every wartime military has a war crimes problem. No exceptions.
But anyone who seriously looks at history must also admit that American veterans have committed the vast majority of war crimes since the end of WWII. We have invaded over 70 countries and killed millions of innocents. No other country even comes close.
How are tankies uniting with maga?
Yeah but in 1930s Germany auth comms started with actual political power. They had an actual political party and gained 10-15% of the vote, which is a level of power modern Tankies could only dream of.
If we are worried about German politics in the 30s, then you should read about what the Liberals did back then, because they are once again capitulating to fascism.
Fascists have taken control of the most powerful country in the history of the world. Trump is following a gameplan to destroy nearly every institution in modern civilization.
“But some Tankies on the internet have some bad ideas too!”
You don’t see which is the bigger priority?
Come back to reality mate, the “auth communists” have no political power and no motion.
Being afraid of an authoritarian communist takeover in the US is like being afraid of an invasion by the Mongol Empire. It would be scary, it would be bad, but its just a silly fantasy.
In a political time when we need to unite against MAGA fascists, I find this type of divisive post absolutely disgusting.
I never said anything at all about Afghanistan.
You posted a meme about the current leadership of Afghanistan.
I think it’s terrible the state if affairs.
Then why would you post a meme smugly extolling the virtues of the current state of affairs? You can’t have it both ways.
I find this meme to be absolutely vile.
The good people of Afghanistan have been under violent US occupation for decades, and as their final move, the US looted the central banking reserves.
This effectively drained the savings of everyday Afghanis. They no longer have access to their bank accounts. The US stole all the money.
I often wonder, would the good people of Afghanistan be able to overthrow the evil leadership of the Taliban? I wish they could, but overthrowing the Taliban is much less likely when the US has left you in a state of devastation, poverty, and famine.
Then those same western chauvinists can post memes like this, delighting in the Afghan people’s suffering after causing so much of it. Disgusting.
Alright I watched your video. I agree it is a problem that a small subsect of secular humanism has been entangled with “anti-wokeness”, Trumpism, and fascism. Many of the figureheads of the atheist movement in the past two decades have become part of the alt-right pipeline, and that is a tragedy.
But as your video readily admits, the vast majority of atheists, anti-theists, and secular humanists are on the left. I was involved with the Freedom from Religion Foundation for a decade or so, and my personal experience was that nearly everyone there was on the left(even in a heavily rightwing state).
I think you are falling into the pitfall, judging a large and diverse group for the misdeeds of a small subsect of that group.
As for “not thinking of religious people as people”, if you would personally know me you would understand this is a laughable notion. I am surrounded by religion and religious people everyday, their views and beliefs are thrust upon me often, and I always respond with respect, very rarely will I offer a counter argument.
But I am still of the conviction that religious people are victim to religion. I believe my cousins, who do not allow their children to see any doctor, are victims of religion. I think any rational person would agree that their young child, recently ill for a month but not allowed to see a doctor, is a victim of religion.
And as for marginalization, I do believe religion should be marginalized. Just like I believe the alt-right and fascist movements should be marginalized. Good things are good, and bad things are bad, and I am convinced religion is bad. But let’s be honest, the power dynamics are heavily weighted on the other side. Religious people are marginalizing atheists, fascists are marginalizing leftists.
As for “intellectually engaging with their position”, I would love to. My experience has been that very few religious people are willing to intellectually engage in the subject. Despite this, I have had many intellectual and respectful discussions on religion, and I appreciate that you are giving me one more.
But if you are so concerned about anti-theism leading to Trumpism, then you should be much more concerned about religion leading people to Trumpism. That correlation is much stronger.