How many wars do you hear the Zoroastrians committing?
Tbh I never heard of them at all.
Pastafarians too.
I feel like that’s more of a political group cosplaying as a religion for legal reasons and social commentary.
And weirdly enough Jehovah’s witnesses.
They are litterally christians.
Why have disdain for someone wanting to believe in a story? Lots of people do lots of worse lies to themselves.
I don’t have disdain for that. My problem with organized religion is that it gives an easy in for maipulators. And naturally defining an arbitrary dividion into an ‘in-group’ and non-believers leading to conflicts.
And (what the main point of my original comment was) this is not limited to abrahamic religions:
Once a fringe Indian ideology, Hindu nationalism is now mainstream (La times)
decades earlier, while Mahatma Gandhi preached Hindu-Muslim unity, the RSS advocated for transforming India — by force, if necessary — into a Hindu nation. (A former RSS worker would fire three bullets into Gandhi’s chest in 1948, killing him months after India gained independence.)
But one view that hardliners and pro-democracy monks share is that they consider Rohingya Muslims ‘outsiders’ and want them sent to detention centers and deported
Tbh I never heard of them at all.
I feel like that’s more of a political group cosplaying as a religion for legal reasons and social commentary.
They are litterally christians.
I don’t have disdain for that. My problem with organized religion is that it gives an easy in for maipulators. And naturally defining an arbitrary dividion into an ‘in-group’ and non-believers leading to conflicts.
And (what the main point of my original comment was) this is not limited to abrahamic religions:
Once a fringe Indian ideology, Hindu nationalism is now mainstream (La times)
How Buddhist Nationalism Defines Myanmar’s Politics (The Yale review of international studies)