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Anyone know if this is true or not?

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[-] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 254 points 11 hours ago

these people have been planning on this for lot longer than a year. christians have been trying to ban video games for decades. the only reason this group hasn't come after more games is because they know they don't yet have enough politicians behind them to manage it.

[-] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 81 points 10 hours ago
[-] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 58 points 8 hours ago

I don't want to come off as pedantic, but what we're dealing with in the US is a very strange and successful breed of "Christian Nationalism."

Essentially, it's a belief that ultra-conservative Christianity is the only legitimate religion and that the USA is a Christian nation.

It probably comes as no surprise that these people heavily influenced the Confederacy, is strongly white-supremecist, anti-vice, etc, and has been an anathema in this country since before the states actually formed.

Christians themselves are... A problem, but not the problem. It's these Christian nationalists. They're loud. They want you to think all Christians believe what they do too. They also tend to drown out opposing Christian speakers by being louder than them too.

It's one of the reasons why MLK Jr was hated so much by Hoover, by the south, etc. He was a Christian pastor, and stood against everything they did.

It's important that we don't group Christians in with Christian Nationalists. It's very difficult but necessary.

[-] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 13 points 4 hours ago

I do agree, but I still think that all religions are a cancer on humanity, harming us, dividing us and holding us back. Religion is the enemy of progress.

[-] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 59 minutes ago

Humans are the ones that are harming and dividing us. If religion is gone they'll find a new way to do it. Us vs them mentality is part of human nature and has always attached itself to anything that can be called ours vs theirs. Religion, politics, sports, skin color, language, the fucking phone brand you use, you name it.

[-] rafoix@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 hours ago

Its Republicans. Don’t blame the religion. Republicans want fascism and they want to control everyone's thoughts and behaviors because they're wired to be subservient to authoritarians. They hate that so many of us have a mind of our own.

[-] Soggy@lemmy.world 10 points 4 hours ago

I'll happily blame all religion, thank you. Nobody should build a worldview where an unaccountable (and imperceptible) third party is responsible for moral decisions.

[-] Zorque@lemmy.world 21 points 9 hours ago

Painting with such a broad brush is how these people got to where they are now, don't make the same mistakes they did.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 14 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Lmao thanks for the heads-up, past me.

Edit: this user thinks that equal rights for women are Islamophobic.

[-] dangling_cat@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Wait, how do you get that? I also use Voyager, but not seeing that :/

Edit: it’s called user tags. It’s not shared as far I’m concerned.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Press and hold on any user and you can add a tag. It is incredibly useful for a myriad of reasons. I started implementing a system for sharing/community tags but I didn’t like the implications of having a parallel voting system to the existing one and scrapped it.

Edit: the best part of the feature is that it can link you to why you created the tag. In this case the user in question argued that supporting women’s rights is the same thing as Islamophobia.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Edit: Messed up a copy/paste.

I couldn't find the exact context of what you linked, but down from it I saw your opinion, which I don't agree with, and doesn't say what you're claiming now.

I honestly don’t understand what you’re asking of me. Women having equal rights is a binary thing, they either do or don’t.

This is wrong. They can be equal in some parts and unequal in others. No culture gives identical rights to all other cultures. There are degrees to equality. It isn't all or nothing. I would say most of the west is more equal than countries that follow Islam as a state religion, but most of them don't have total equality. I assume you agree with that, right? And Saudi Arabia is better than Iran, right? Not significantly, but there are degrees to it, right?

Painting it as binary all or nothing is wrong, and probably is antithetical to progress. If it's all or nothing, and something would take a step in the right direction, then why take that step if it isn't all the way, right? Treating it as binary is bad.

[-] AstaKask@lemmy.cafe 10 points 8 hours ago

Religion is the closest thing to true evil that exist on this planet. Insane cultists shouldn't be allowed around children. Not even their own (they tend to mutilate them in order to mark them as members of their insane cult).

[-] liuther9@feddit.nl 1 points 5 hours ago

He is right you know

[-] fuckgod@feddit.online 26 points 9 hours ago

Mostly because of all the stupid.

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 9 points 8 hours ago
[-] AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

Right on man. Fuckin' Buddhists. Probably don't even use Linux.

[-] Zeusz13@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago

The bullshit going on in the USA under the christian name is short sighted, stupid and lacks empathy. Christianity isn't USA fundamentalism tho.

[-] Korkki@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 hours ago

christians have been...

A few closeted and bitter homosexuals in denial have been...

[-] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 19 points 11 hours ago

It will never happen on a large scale. Not as long as there is this much money to be made. I have no doubts these freaks will keep trying and make our lives harder, though.

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