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EU states can ban religious symbols in public workplaces
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Good, fuck religion. The earlier we get rid of that shit, the earlier we can unify as a species.
That will never happen. If religion is erased from the equation, ideology or culture will take it's place and cause friction
Religion is ideology and culture that has caused friction for many years now. Thats the whole point of removing it.
Please explain how banning religious symbols is getting rid of religion.
It's not, but it's a step towards that. By removing the religious symbols you make people think about it less, even just subconsciously.
If that was the case we wouldn't have christians running around nowadays. Mainly cultures and empires throughout history have tried to ban some form of religious symbology, but it doesn't ever work, and typically just makes the conflict worse.
Well, Christianity is in a swift decline outside of places where they do have enough power left to enforce social conformity. By my estimate in another 50 years Christianity will be a small niche in many countries along with the other major religions in the global North (is that a thing, basically western doesn't work because of South America).
Which is his point. Christianity is on the decline because society has let those people assimilate on their own. They did not ban Christianity.
Once you start banning or suppressing an ideology, the people will actually strengthen their beliefs because they have no way to assimilate with their beliefs into a society anymore.
You should study up on religion and Christianity, we banned plenty of their bullshit practices. The reason Christianity is mostly mild and meek now is because we've had to push it back into a corner. It had to get rid of most of its archaic customs to survive.
Islam needs to be beaten just the same way. Making women second class citizens and forcing them to wear beekeeper suits while the man gets to run around in shorts and flip flops is demeaning and unacceptable.
it's not a ban or persecution though, if anything it's a protection for everyone and mainly the separation of state and church, you are allowed to do your religion but not in the government buildings
No one is suggesting the perscution of anything. And the ban is just for public places. If people want to adore whatever mythical creature, they can do it a home, but that mythical creature dont get to dictate how others should act.
But they don't do that. They don't leave religion with their beliefs. If anything the vast majority still in the religion on paper doesn't even have those beliefs any more.
It will reduce prejudice in one form: looks and clothing. The sooner we come together as a species, the greater we progress and bring fundamental changes in everything we care as a species.
"unify as a species" aka "only unify under my belief, Athiesm". That's what Islamists thought and so did the crusaders. How is your belief any more important?
It's not a belief at all
You believe that there is no god or gods, and that people shouldn't believe in them either. That is a belief.
Christians don't state there's no evidence for God, no idea where you pulled that one from. You'd have to believe that all of that evidence is invalid, and believing that religion in turn should be destroyed because you so whole-heartedly disagree with the evidence does require belief.
Christian evidence for God amounts to "because someone said so" + a vague sense that some force is working in their life. That's just animism with extra steps.
The "evidence" is a story in writings aged thousands of years... it is not something we can observe or have physical or visual proof of, all we have is words that go against all scientific evidence, so it's not "evidence". You have to actually believe in magic to believe in that kind of stuff, it holds as much salt as any other pseudoscientific garbage.
It's laughable to say that you must respect the beliefs of people into astrology or flat earth or electric universe or anything of the sorts, and it's just as laughable to say you have to respect the beliefs of people who believe in supranatural/divine beings. Because false beliefs actually cause harm, and religion especially has caused far more harm than any other pseudoscience (and the amount of good it may have done is extraordinarily outweighed), it is currently causing a lot of harm, and it will likely continue to cause great harm in the future.
I personally value the lives of hundreds of millions to billions of people more than appeasing some long outdated beliefs (and especially the people who exploit those beliefs for personal gain), but that's just me. I'm agnostic, I don't choose a belief, there might be some divine being or afterlife but I see that it's completely insane to propogate any of said beliefs, it causes suffering and has set us back potentially hundreds of years progress-wise.
Honestly all of humanity would probably have much less suffering if it weren't for organized religion and its consequences, including but not limited to either directly causing or being the biggest contributor to the far-right and fascism & corporatism, and a large amount of general imperialism/authoritarianism (divine right anybody?). Guys banging other guys was the norm in most of the world until Abrahamic religions came along and brainwashed the entirety of the west lol, then it became a heinous crime and caused a over a thousand years of suffering and oppression for gays, people of "heretic" religious beliefs, anyone that opposed the authorities of an organized religion, those who faced the wrath of most imperialism/conquest – which was generally propogated by religion (and would have been a lot less strong without religion scaring people with eternal damnation) in Europe and the Americas and even in Asia, and often in Africa, etc. etc. And now modern religion is once again making society try to regress.
On paper religion alone isn't bad, but people can't handle religion, up to this point humans just try to find things to hate each other for and religion is BY FAR the most successful & easy tool to use for that, nothing else comes even close, sure if religion was gone other things may go up in usage as reasons to arbitrarily hate others, but it won't have even near the power of religion, nothing's more effective than threatening people with fiery hell for them or their loved ones, or offering them eternal glory in the afterlife, or whatever, because that's forever and Earth life is temporary!
I don't believe there is are gods, or unicorns, or green elephants. "Don't believe" = "no belief".
And personally I couldn't care less what other people believe, as long as they keep it to themselves and don't bother anybody.
I don't believe that a God doesn't exist, so therefore no belief either. Who says you get to be the default?
Occam's Razor.
as Ricky Gervais put it the difference between a Christian or Muslim and an Atheist is to believe in exactly one less god than them, there are over 2000 gods believed in by various people, Christians don't believe in any of them, Atheists don't believe in any of them +1
Ah yes the universe came from nothing and time started by itself. Don't question it people or this man sends you to jail.
You clearly misunderstand what it is to be an atheist. The whole point is to question it. As new evidence (yes, it's based on evidence) surfaces, we change our "beliefs" accordingly.
Atheism is not belief in the big bang, atheism is belief in whatever scientific theory is currently best supported by evidence.
Atheism means that you say you are 100% certain there is no god. A-Theism. It's the word.
The problem is that there is still no clear evidence for the origins for time and the universe. You cannot start claiming god doesn't exist without having clear evidence for it
If a god exists, they're completely superfluous, unnecessary and not worthy of praise.
You say that, but you're alive. So I'm assuming that you do somewhat appreciate being alive since you haven't unalived yourself. You might even think it's pretty neat.
What absolute brainless nonsense is this? What's that even supposed to mean?
That God is the reason for my/your/our/Our existence, seems clear enough, you can refer to Aristotle or pretty much any other theologian on this topic.
See, believing in God was never irrational after all, you were just brainwashed by modernity(, on this topic as well).
Also, God is the Greatest being, by definition(, see St.Anselm ٱللَّٰهُ أَكْبَرُ), so S..He is also my/(y)our/Our/the Guide/Example/Light(house)/..
cancer is alive, just saying...
Well if you insist on pedantry, "atheism" doesn't mean a belief that gods don't exist, it's a lack of belief in gods. Think "asexual": it's not an aversion to sex, just a lack of sex drive. You are describing antitheism, and many self-described atheists are actually antitheists.
Incorrect, you are the one with the spectacular claim and the burden of proof lies on you. Prove that gods exist.
Agnoticism is the word you are looking for. or "being agnostic".
agnostic
This entire comment chain is focused on banning religion and being 100% certain that god doesn't exist.
If you want to ban religion and claim god doesn't exist then the burden of evidence to disprove god lies with you. But you can start by creating something from nothing or reversing time.
Everybody (except some religious people) are agnostic about most things. That's why phenomema like gravity or electromagnetism are explained by "theories". God isn't even a theory in that sense.
It's scientifically close to impossible to prove the non-existence of something. Even green elephants.
As for time and space... I don't see the slightest evidence of "god did it". For me, the chance of finding a green Elephant seems way higher. Because it seems at least possible.
No that's agnosticism
They were angry at Jesus because he spoke the truth
Except wars were waged for political reasons, not religious ones(, some civil wars excepted).
And good actions were quite often done for religious reasons, which is why rejecting religions was(is) seen as rejecting the call for virtue, and to God.
You can have technologies or not, be in a communist/royalist/democrat/'("anarcho"-)capitalist'/republican/.. state or not, it's not enough to live in paradise, you'll still find assholes, an environment including religions will( also) be made to improve ourselves. Not saying it didn't failed there as well, since people in the past weren't always "christians", it only means it isn't enough by itself for 100% of the population, not that it isn't the way forward.
Downvote me all you want, i.d.c., but argue before doing so if you ever have time to learn by a mutual debate.
here is my argument, most of my friends are some flavor of christian, and christening's are happening to their kids, if I suggested to them that their kids should be brought up rhe islam way, taught about it from the start etc, they would think I am trying to brainwash their kids, but ofc doing the same with Christianity is not brainwashing, it's normal. as someone who was completely isolated from religious brainwashing I don't think someone like you who I assume wasn't can ever comprehend how fucked up religion looks from the outside, no different from any other cult.