This argument has bugged me since the early 2000s. The guy who did the McDonalds Super Size Me (somewhat fake, I now understand) documentary got a stupid reality tv show and some dumbass christian (who had to live with a Muslim family for a month) asked the same goddamned question.
He also wondered if the family, while saying prayers in their native language, might be saying something like “death to america.” You know, in front of television cameras during the height of our “war on terror.” That’s how fucking stupid these people are.
They are holding us back. If their fear and hatred couldn’t be weaponized, we’d have a much nicer society.
don’t forget Christians and Muslims are literally cut from the same cloth - both are pretty much just offshoots of Judaism. Judaism itself is just a random tribal religion (of which there have been countless thousands) that somehow didn’t get dropped and forgotten about as humans moved into the modern era. It’s frankly weird that over half the world’s population belong to one of these Jewish sects (and also a bit funny that there are only a handful of million who follow the OG Jewish religion).
And yes it’s frustrating that so many people are so stupid as to base their lives around something that collapses under the slightest objective scrutiny, and probably not surprising that a not-insignificant number of them want to literally kill followers of all the other offshoots.
The problem is, there is inherent human need not to think. Some need it more, some need it less.
If tonight some magical device removes religion from all of history, we will simply find out whet other idea will those people latch unto. Would it be nationalism? Would it be cult of personality? Perhaps trusting only single media group, or discarding any research paper not done by “racially pure” group? Would they claim “how can we trust foreigners? if they do not follow our leader, they cannot be moral, right?”
This argument has bugged me since the early 2000s. The guy who did the McDonalds Super Size Me (somewhat fake, I now understand) documentary got a stupid reality tv show and some dumbass christian (who had to live with a Muslim family for a month) asked the same goddamned question.
He also wondered if the family, while saying prayers in their native language, might be saying something like “death to america.” You know, in front of television cameras during the height of our “war on terror.” That’s how fucking stupid these people are.
They are holding us back. If their fear and hatred couldn’t be weaponized, we’d have a much nicer society.
don’t forget Christians and Muslims are literally cut from the same cloth - both are pretty much just offshoots of Judaism. Judaism itself is just a random tribal religion (of which there have been countless thousands) that somehow didn’t get dropped and forgotten about as humans moved into the modern era. It’s frankly weird that over half the world’s population belong to one of these Jewish sects (and also a bit funny that there are only a handful of million who follow the OG Jewish religion).
And yes it’s frustrating that so many people are so stupid as to base their lives around something that collapses under the slightest objective scrutiny, and probably not surprising that a not-insignificant number of them want to literally kill followers of all the other offshoots.
The problem is, there is inherent human need not to think. Some need it more, some need it less.
If tonight some magical device removes religion from all of history, we will simply find out whet other idea will those people latch unto. Would it be nationalism? Would it be cult of personality? Perhaps trusting only single media group, or discarding any research paper not done by “racially pure” group? Would they claim “how can we trust foreigners? if they do not follow our leader, they cannot be moral, right?”