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It's boring to me since it's very easy for me to see the faults of a religion that I have no association with.

I am wondering if there are a lot of exmuslim people here or if it's people raised in a christian world that just have a specific gripe with islam.

I was raised in a part of the world mostly shaped by christianity and so I was hoping to see more examination of that.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago

It's ironic that you're saying this when just a few days ago people were complaining about the lack of criticism towards Islam.

It's probably due to the fact that some people who criticized Islam on these posts are brigaded by downvotes in their comment history. Basically a fuck you to these zealots who think we give a fuck about their religion.

[–] fence_prude 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

😂😬😯😮😯🤣

[–] InternetPresence 12 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't be surprised if some of it is coming off the news of the suicide bombing that was carried out by IS in Pakistan. But another part of it could be that one post got popular and so you will see posts following the trends.

On an atheism community you can't expect people to only post about one religion. Maybe something you can do to tie it to your experiences is try and connect the commonalities that tend to infect all major religions. I think its interesting finding those foundational aspects of many mainstream religions and seeing how they use similar tactics and controlling techniques amongst their congregants.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A person who is raised in one version of a restrictive Abrahamic religion is upset their online space to vent about it is also visited by people who are raised in another version of a restrictive Abrahamic religion who want to vet about their experience as well.

Rather than see them as cousins with the same issue, they see them as the other, not realising they are repeating the indoctrination of the religion they claim to have left behind.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So you're saying that there's people here that were raised in muslim dominated societies and are posting the anti muslim posts? I wouldn't have any issue with that. But so far in this thread nobody said this was their experience.

So I still believe that it's people who were raised like me posting the anti muslim memes.

[–] afraid_of_zombies 2 points 1 year ago

Ffs you do not need to have personally suffered to point out problems. I wasn't raised in an Islamic tradition either that doesn't mean I can't yell about it.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you need to have been raised in Clearwater, FL in order to criticize Scientologists or Salt Lake City, UT to criticize Mormons?

[–] Historical_General 4 points 1 year ago

The Lanky guy should do more posts on Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Here's my hypothesis. People have little contact to Muslims and the way Islam is being usually practiced. Thus people's opinion of Islam is heavily influenced by the worst shit and stereotypes. With Christianity most people have friends or relatives that are "moderate" christians or whatever. So the worst versions of Christianity are less present.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit 2 points 1 year ago

It's a different flavor of the same shit. The sooner we can wipe and flush, the better off we'll all be.

[–] afraid_of_zombies 1 points 1 year ago

We are free of the mods of reddit who would defend Islam.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I live in a Muslim-majority country where Islam is sometimes referred to as “hotel California” - you can convert into it but never out of it.

More posts about Islam, please.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

No worries! I’m thankfully not born a Muslim. But I know countless closeted atheists here who are angry because they are forced to be Muslims in public. It’s a good thing that the Fediverse gives them the rare space to express themselves!

[–] LazyBane 1 points 1 year ago

Islam just gets treated with kiddie gloves alot of the time, so when there's a platform that enables proper criticism of Islam people take the opportunity to vent.

[–] bi_tux -5 points 1 year ago

At least for me this is a nice thing.

For context: I live and work in Vienna, I know a lot of muslims and a lot of them are just homo- and transphobic bastards.