• @wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    6 days ago

    Is one of these murderous religious people in the room with us right now?

    Way to completely miss the point of the comic. Tearing down someone out of a vain desire to be “right” helps no one. Fight people who use any belief to justify being shitty to others. Go read some Vonnegut and learn to leave people who get goodness out of shit alone.

    Edit: The comment originally was about religious people being murderous. My first edit was to add an additional thought. This dude’s edited now to change the core of his argument from “murder” to “opression”.

    • @rocket_dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      346 days ago

      Is one of these murderous religious people in the room with us right now?

      No they’re just ruling some of the most powerful and genocidal despotic countries in human history.

    • @teslasaur@lemmy.world
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      216 days ago

      Fight people who use any belief to justify being shitty to others.

      Yes, fight religion. Fight it with logic, science and facts. Otherwise you’ll get people like RFK jr, and a whole bunch of sick and potentially dead children. Or you might end up like the middle east, dead in the name of god.

    • KT-TOT
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      136 days ago

      Sharing your beliefs with family is pretty common. Would you not want your relatives to reflect the way you see the world?

      Just because it’s going against the generational direction doesn’t make it somehow wrong.

      Nor is making a relative upset necessarily wrong.

      Now, freed from the expectations, worldview, and belief systems of a religion, she is able to choose her own way of living?

      I don’t really see how this is a negative. Religion gives easy, comforting, often bullshit answers to difficult questions. Who are you supposed to be? What’s the right thing to do? How should you treat others? What happens after I die?

      • DaGeek247
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        66 days ago

        Now, freed from the expectations, worldview, and belief systems of a religion, she is able to choose her own way of living?

        In the same way that throwing a child into the ocean is “free to learn how to swim”, sure. You can’t go to all this work to convince someone you are right, and then as soon as they start listening and agreeing with you, abandon them to despair. If you want to help someone see the world more clearly, you also have to show them how to handle this new world, especially if it’s your own family you’re trying to help.

        • KT-TOT
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          26 days ago

          I do agree that abandonment is cringe.

          On their own journey, I’d be wary of introducing my own biases.

          I feel that easily could’ve been excluded from the comic either for the author’s narrative, or simply to keep it a 3 panel. Could also just be alone time to process.

    • Amnesigenic
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      96 days ago

      Actually yes religious justifications for violence are fairly common, the comic is stupid