Message from @lungfish
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The Japanese also leader-worshipped.
christianity in the main standing of it right now, this isnt the case
@Boop / 브파 / C'thUwU that doesn't pardon them from doing those things though? What?
especially since we know, with democracy, any crazy zealot is to be shot down
I wrote a 16 page research paper on Zen Buddhism, and how it got twisted by the wind-up to WW2. Shit is crazy.
im not saying they are pardoned, im saying they beleive they are justifed in following convictions that cause damage
"It's okay for islam to commit atrocities because they believe it's good, but not okay for Nazis to do the same because they've reasoned it's good"
What is this argument?
Christianity today is mostly fine because of a lot of heavy selective bias instead of biblical literalism.
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we've fumbled here
But also because the NT is inherently reformist
@Boop / 브파 / C'thUwU yeah I seriously do not understand your position
There are ideas superior to Christianity. They've been allowed, despite the religion, to flourish.
name one
He can't.
Thou shalt not own other human beings.
Don't fuck kids.
That one's shit.
There's two.
Abolitionism was led by Christians and the Church was opposed to slavery as well; fucking kids is of course forbidden
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If people didn't want to be property, they shouldn't have been born black, that's all I'm saying.
Not so much forbidden, as "don't get caught."
That's your conspiracy theory
Not so much a theory as "it was the news a few years ago. It did happen. It had been happening."
And it happens today in several Christian cults, like the Mormons and Jehova's Witnesses.
You're implying it's actually morally approved of when it's not
@Cryosite christianity was cited as the reason to abolish slavery, though. The thing with ideology inherently geared toward reformism is that it can be used appropriately as a catalyst for any social or cultural value change
Not so much "it was the news a few years ago. It did happen. It had been happening" as "I use quotation marks to be condescending."
Or that it's something that uniquely happens in the Church and not in all other institutions, including public schools, where it happens to a greater degree
@UnfilteredGarbage im not capable at the moment to articulate what i mean, so ill take it away and think on it
What did I just stumble onto?
the best i can do is to say that extremes of either end are bad, and christianity is not inherently extreme, and mostly a 'live a good life for heaven' thing
islam as a religion is different because they have the thing about suicide being justified
so that changes perspective
@Boop / 브파 / C'thUwU fascism and Islamic-style fundamentalist theocracy are not opposite extremes though
Turban bad, holy cracker good
i mean in terms of a religious belief, since the totalitarians tried to do away with religion
Jihad is just extreme blasphemy laws