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[-] Bogus007@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 weeks ago

Interesting to see so many comments defending religion, especially one particular religion. Anyway, IMO religion should be always a private matter. If you don’t like certain rules or laws, nobody is preventing you to leave and be happy somewhere else. So, if a Christian is not happy in a Muslim country due to restrictions, the person can move to a Christian or secular country. If a Muslim is not happy in a basically Christian or secular country, there are many Muslim countries, which will allow him or her to follow the rules of the religion. So, everybody is happy. Hence, what is the deal here?

[-] Bad_Ideas_In_Bulk@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago

"Just give up your home, job, and family and likely become a refugee if you don't agree with the prevailing religion. What's the big deal?"

[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

"Abortion is illegal now because it's unchristian. If you are not a devout Christian, move."

[-] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Your opinion is a bit of a paradox, isn't it? If religion was always a private matter you wouldn't be able to go to any country and tell what religion that country is.

Part of the problem is that a few religions tell their followers that they own specific land, so they are competing to have exclusivity of that land instead of just going somewhere else.

The expansion of civilisations has always encroached on religions as well. You basically have to choose a point in time to say "starting now religions are allowed to exist in the countries they are already in." Should the aboriginal Australians just go somewhere else if they don't like the multicultural/multi-religiousness of modern Australia? What about native Americans if they don't like capitalist Jesus?

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