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[deleted] t1_iufvusj wrote

Well if you actually fucking read these holy books, the Abrahamic religions are all terrorist ideologies. Unfortunately, humans are fucking horrible life forms who take literally thousands of years to figure out what is right and wrong.

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Phnrcm t1_iuhp6yn wrote

It is funny that in every thread about Islam, "Abrahamic religions" always come up without fail.

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anti-DHMO-activist t1_iuisfka wrote

Well obviously, because a significant part of the world population remembers either directly or culturally what happened in the name of christianity and/or islam.

Here in germany for example we still have monuments and official holidays/festivities directly made after the 30-year-war 1648. We also still have towers standing where "witches" used to be imprisoned. And so much more.

This kind of living history is a thing in many parts of the world. Just because christianity got comparably tame in the last 100 years or so, doesn't mean that it doesn't count. The relative impotency of the christian churches in europe was paid for with blood. Lots and lots of blood.

Americans lack this kind of living history, because they don't really have any. But elsewhere this is quite normal to be in the cultural consciousness.

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anti-DHMO-activist t1_iug5uve wrote

This is so reductive as to be quite useless I think.

The "holy" books are all highly problematic, no disagreement. However, all those books can be read in many, many different ways. There is no single "correct" interpretation - especially since those books contain so many consistency and logic issues, that a logically sound direct reading is pretty much impossible.

I think religion has to be kept on a short leash. But so directly labeling their books as terrorist just increases hate on all sides and leads to even deeper divides.

With enough education, the worst parts of religion will solve themselves, as we have seen in almost all highly educated regions except the US.

Until then, I'd recommend to be less... direct. Because a deeply antagonized group is closer knit and much harder to break into.

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