Saying things like that kind of validates their persecution complex, no? I mean you can’t exactly say “nobody is persecuting you” immediately after saying “you’re dangerous until you’re extinguished.”
Like, if you want to back someone against a wall and force them to fight for their survival, that’s how you do it.
Obviously public school board meetings shouldn’t involve prayers or religion, and it’s not persecuting anybody to disallow it. But I don’t honestly give a shit if a student decides to pray at lunch, that’s their personal choice and all religions should be protected equally in that respect.
It’s about finding a middle-ground that respects all sides. “You won’t be forced to participate in religious performativism in order to take part in these publicly funded meetings. However, everyone is free to practice their religion on their own time as long as it doesnt infringe on the rights of others.”
It’s not that hard. Saying “we need to extinguish [X] religion” is the wrong way to go. That’s no better than one religion fighting another.
If someone’s religion is a scam or an abusive cult, like scientology or JW, they should be dealt with as a scam or as an abusive cult, on the merits of the case against them. Maga should be dismantled for being hate-fueled militant ethno-nationalists antithetical to the principles of democracy as enshrined in the constitution, not simply because they hide it all behind a veneer of christianity.
All religions are cults and scams. But I wasn’t saying Christians need to be extinguished. I said Christian nationalists need to be extinguished. I think with enough time religion will likely be relegated to irrelevancy until people forget the dangers and it has a resurgence ala fascism right now.
Saying things like that kind of validates their persecution complex, no? I mean you can’t exactly say “nobody is persecuting you” immediately after saying “you’re dangerous until you’re extinguished.”
Like, if you want to back someone against a wall and force them to fight for their survival, that’s how you do it.
Obviously public school board meetings shouldn’t involve prayers or religion, and it’s not persecuting anybody to disallow it. But I don’t honestly give a shit if a student decides to pray at lunch, that’s their personal choice and all religions should be protected equally in that respect.
It’s about finding a middle-ground that respects all sides. “You won’t be forced to participate in religious performativism in order to take part in these publicly funded meetings. However, everyone is free to practice their religion on their own time as long as it doesnt infringe on the rights of others.”
It’s not that hard. Saying “we need to extinguish [X] religion” is the wrong way to go. That’s no better than one religion fighting another.
If someone’s religion is a scam or an abusive cult, like scientology or JW, they should be dealt with as a scam or as an abusive cult, on the merits of the case against them. Maga should be dismantled for being hate-fueled militant ethno-nationalists antithetical to the principles of democracy as enshrined in the constitution, not simply because they hide it all behind a veneer of christianity.
All religions are cults and scams. But I wasn’t saying Christians need to be extinguished. I said Christian nationalists need to be extinguished. I think with enough time religion will likely be relegated to irrelevancy until people forget the dangers and it has a resurgence ala fascism right now.