• masquenox@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Liberal atheists that are white supremacists?

    I guess you’ve never heard of Bill Maher? Lucky you.

    see the crusades, salem witch trials, the Spanish inquisition

    You’re going to blame religion for feudalist politics? How convenient… and completely ahistorical.

    9-11

    Right… let’s blame the consequences of US neocolonialism on religion as well. After all… US bombs are “secular” and “democratic” bombs, aren’t they, liberal?

    In many cases the atrocities of a nation state

    So why do all these “rational” atheists not apply their “rationality” to the nation state, but only to religion?

    In the modern US religion is often used to dismiss scientific findings.

    And throughout history, religious institutions preserved them - see Irish clergy and Islamic scholars preserving the writings of ancient Greece, for example.

    there are concrete actions that people on Earth can take right this instant that we know will help.

    You mean… like applying your “rationality” to the problem of the nation state, perhaps?