Let’s just be done with religion.
this post was submitted on 04 Jan 2024
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Like that would change anything
It's getting easier and easier to keep track of which group hates which other group - just assume they all hate each other.
Why do people still believe in religions? It’s the most ridiculously fake idea. I get it back 200 years ago when we knew way less than we do now. With all we have learned about the universe, still not one drop of evidence for any of their “deities.” I guess people are pretty good at living divorced from reality.
Despite the popular "lol religion dumb" sentiment on lemmy, religion is still a useful thing. It provides benefits to members that can't be found elsewhere, notably the "third place" that has almost disappeared in modern society.
What benefits does it provide that couldn’t be provided without believing in a deity? Community? A sense or purpose? Daycare? Not sure what the “third place” you say is so don’t know to what you allude. I do know people fighting over whose “god is right,” like the two parties in this story, has killed many millions of people over human history.
Thanks - wasn’t familiar with that term. I’m sure the commenter wasn’t arguing religion is the only third place so I will just say there are far less destructive third place options available.
Agreed. I wasn't raised in any religion so I have never experience with church being a third place. I had the library growing up.
Examples of third places include churches, cafes, bars, clubs, community centres, public libraries, gyms, bookstores, makerspaces, stoops, and parks.
Some people need religion to be good.
Without it, they would be lost.
Psychopaths be psychopaths. Religion isn’t holding any truly evil person back. I doubt the handful of people that actually would commit crimes, but were “stopped” because of their religion outweighs the number of people who murder in the name of religion.
This makes no sense. I'm not denying that IS did it, but just from an objective outsider, I can't make sense of it.
Yes, Sunnis and Shiites don't get along. IS particularly hates Shiites. However, I would expect they would be temporarily united with Shiite Iran against a common enemy - Israel.
The bombing in Iran was the latest bloody episode in the Islamic State’s targeting of Iran, which it considers an irredeemable sectarian foe, one that, along with a U.S.-led coalition, had a hand in defeating the group in Syria and Iraq. It was General Suleimani who built a network of Shiite militias there to repel the group and personally directed efforts to fight it.
Yep that would be a good enough reason to.
You're trying to use reason. You can't do that with hate, because it's not reasonable.
True enough.
Really? Cause it looks like OP's reply provided a lot of reason.
Yeah isil is weird, they actually don't seem to hate Israel that much, going as far as to collaborate with them militarily.