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This is the official Lemmy for the r/ReligiousCringe***** subreddit. This is a community about poking fun at the religious fundamentalist's who take their religion a little bit too far. Here you will find religious content that is so outrageous and so cringeworthy that even someone who is mildly religious will cringe.
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All posts must contain religious cringe. All posts must be made from a religious person or must be showcasing some kind of religious bigotry. The only exception to this is rule 2
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Material about religious bigots made by non-bigots is only allowed from Friday-Sunday EST. In an effort to keep this community on the topic of religious cringe and bigotry we have decide to limit stuff like atheist memes to only the weekends.
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No Proselytizing. Proselytizing is defined as trying to convert someone to a particular religion or certain world view. Doing so will get you banned.
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Spammers and Trolls will be instantly banned. No exceptions.
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“Please don’t base our laws on the rules of basketball, because some of us choose not to play.”
“wHY ArE YOu TRyiNg tO TaKE aWAy mY BAsKeTBaLl?!?!”
You're making a false dichotomy, those aren't the only two options.
I fully agree that there are some absolutely unhinged religious people, and religious people are far far more likely to take extreme action than atheist are.
But that doesn't mean that there aren't any passionate and loud atheist who try to take away religion from others.
I am absolutely not trying to say "both sides are equal in their absurdity/extremism/authoritarianism", I'm saying that the identity politics involved makes passionate people on both sides behave in similar ways.
The religious have far more people who are passionate about their religion than atheists have people passionate about their atheism; but when you look at people who are similarly passionate on both sides, their identity as religious/atheist can often make them behave in similar ways when interacting with the public (or each other, at least).
I'm trying to make a far more nuanced point than you're representing.