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SuddenDownpour

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The three posts below this one with “Active” sorting at the moment:

https://sh.itjust.works/post/2062122

https://sh.itjust.works/post/2088649

https://sh.itjust.works/post/2094209

One of them is criticizing a historical Christian organization and using it to debunk an argument against atheists, another one is criticizing legislation that favors religious institutions in a predominantly Christian country, the third one is criticizing a trend in certain religious institutions but usually refers to Christian ones.

This is obviously a sub focused on preaching and spreading hate against Muslims.

Therefore, this is obviously false.

But let’s look at the premise of your argument. This one meme is clearly criticizing a historical figure that raped a minor, declared it morally justified, and also happens to be the prophet of a religion. Are you arguing that we shouldn’t call out pederasty if the criminal is an important religious figure? In general, or only if they belong to Islam in particular?

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The only reason it’s so much more expensive than animal-based meats is because of the amount of subsidies the meat industry gets.

If the environmental costs of producing it were added as taxes to meat, its price would skyrocket. Related link.

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What you are asking for is a “first cause”, or “a reason why everything exists, at all”, rather than simply not existing. This question is often presented by religious people in order to make the cosmological argument, which would say: “the Universe couldn’t come out of nowhere, there had to be an original cause for it to exist”, which then they claim it is their god.

However, the problem is trying to adjudge the first cause to something that exists, has existed or used to exist other than the Universe itself simply pushes the question forwards, because for that very thing anyone else could ask: “And what created the first cause?”, therefore “So the Universe exists because God created it. So what created God?”. When it comes to religious explanations, this problem only grows, because you’re pushing the first cause from something we know it exists (the Universe itself) to something we do not have proof of its existence, which ironically makes it even a weaker explanation.

In the end, there is probably a physical reason, but we just don’t know about it.

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It’s so that you can be admonished for not following their morals. [Bad thing that happened to you] is the divine consequence of not [moral commandment that their religious institution defends, and is usually not related to the bad thing], therefore [submit to the authority of their religious institution].

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Carving up Ukraine’s territorial integrity is breeding grounds for further border conflicts. Do you think Ukrainians are going to simply sit and quietly forget about it if Russia steals their territory, or will it remain an open wound that provokes them to retaliate in any way they can for decades to come?

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Anyone who brings up their sense of justice to public discussion has to accept the possibility of having their sense of justice scrutinized.

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You don’t think relations between Russia and Ukraine will not mend sooner, in historical terms, if this war ends in a white peace, rather than with Russia keeping Ukrainian territories? Being invaded will remain a traumatic memory for most Ukrainians for the rest of their lives, but forever losing a chunk of their country will contribute to keeping that wound open and will favor nationalist, anti-Russian rhetoric in their politics, which will absolutely remove the possibility of ever initiating a new chapter in their relationship with Russia.

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Look up “statistics drag queens crimes against minors” on Google.

Now do the same for “statistics priests crimes against minors”.

Notice anything interesting?

If a certain narrative is relying only on isolated stories and journalistic reports, and the other has statistical studies to back up its claims, I’d trust the latter to have a closer grip on reality.

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Anti-Muslim =/= Anti-Islam. If you instinctively react to criticism of Islam in a way that you don’t react to criticism of Christianity, you likely have a bias that you may want to check out. Broad criticisms against Muslims and/or Arabs is hate speech, and in certain cases, racism; criticizing Islam is as necessary for any society that wants to get rid of moral dogma as it is criticizing any other major religion.

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