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[–] [email protected] 52 points 8 months ago

If you gotta pick stones to worship, you could do far worse than fossilized dinosaur eggs.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] Carvex 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Om namah shaviya!

Om namah shaviya!

Om namah shaviya!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"Once a year near Diwali, the villagers make farm animals like cows or goats walk over these stones to gain the protection of the deity."

I'm sorry, but religion is so asinine...

And I'm sure some people would scoff at this quote with hypocrisy while simultaneously believing in their own make believe story.

[–] Vytle -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is actually fucking disgusting. Your really shitting on the culture of a people you clearly don't understand, because you want to losely tie it into the fact that you (think) your better than the average person simply because you don't follow a religion. Believe what you want, and portray yourself how you want, but don't fucking use indigenous cultures as stepping stones to point out your beliefs. Go back to Reddit with this shit, man.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Religion is an idea and ideas don't inherently deserve respect. Anyone walking over anything to gain some sort of protection is ridiculous and should be treated as such. It is ok if you feel different but it's worriesome that you are directly attacking others like that.

[–] Vytle -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

The culture of other people, and by proxy their religion, does deserve respect. We are talking about tradition that has been passed from generation upon generation. This inheritely demands respect, assuming your not a redditor who sees themselves as above everyone else.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"I am right and if you disagree you belong to [group of people I don't like]."

Yikes, spoken like a true religious person.

[–] Vytle 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm not religious, I just have basic fucking empathy. Great strawman BTW.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This inheritely demands respect, assuming your not a redditor who sees themselves as above everyone else.

Great strawman BTW.

Did you really not get that lol

[–] Vytle 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

You are reducing my point of "cultures inheritely demand respect for its generational perseverance" down to "I am right" You either can't think of a valid argument against my point, or you somehow gained enough compassion to not want to argue that other people's culture is not inheritely respectable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

argue that other people’s culture is not inheritely respectable.

I don't need to argue facts. But you go ahead and have fun with that if you want.

[–] Vytle 0 points 8 months ago

Yeah no I see that. God forbid you be wrong, right?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

You gotta have a naked woman hold them in a house fire first.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

If you can defeat the dinosaur cultists do you unlock a unique mount, or a vanity pet?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago
[–] Vytle 1 points 8 months ago

This goes unbelievably hard