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I'm guessing it's like Christianity where there are leftist Christians who follow Jesus' more progressive messages such as giving to the less fortunate and healing the sick, and then there are the scary Christian evangelicals that want A Handmaids Tale and conversion therapy. Logically, Islam probably isn't a monolith in a similar way other religions aren't.

However, I have never heard about what those of the Islamic faith actually believe outside of the hysterical post 9/11 Islamophobia I've been indoctrinated with as a child.

I want to know what the truth is and hear the other sides story. To me it's obvious that Islamophobia is wrong, however when Islamophobes make wild claims about it, I can't really refute them confidently because I'm simply ignorant of the facts. Please educate my dumb, white ass.

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[–] Monk3brain3@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago (50 children)

Religion is always trash. No way around that and even as open mind leftists or wannabe leftists we have to recognize that. However the worst elements of religion tend to moderate with development something the Muslim world has been denied by the great Satan amerikkka

[–] imogen_underscore@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)
[–] Monk3brain3@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Feel free to square that circle and explain how religion and Marxism are able to go hand in hand. Marxism is a material analysis of the world. Religion is not and quite the opposite.

[–] imogen_underscore@hexbear.net 25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

actually not interested in a debate reddit atheist, just wanted to let you know your take sucks!

[–] Monk3brain3@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 20 points 2 weeks ago

What debate lol

Feel free to square that circle and explain how religion and Marxism are able to go hand in hand.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Marx called religion the soul of soulless conditions.

Sanctimoniously looking down on downtrodden people before anything about those conditions can even begin to improve must feel good, but it doesn't win anyone over that isn't already tipping fedoras at you.

[–] Monk3brain3@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Religion is literally used to maintain dominance over people and prevent condition from improving

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Your smug bloviating is "literally" alienating and pushing people away that are so crushed by their present conditions that saying "um actually religion bad" is just an insufferable liberal-coded flex on them that makes them hate you more.

Plenty of New Atheists in the present day lick corporate boots and they are certainly contributing to a worsening of conditions, no formal religion required.

Have you fucking read Marx? The post-religious world comes a long time later and your self-congratulatory present-day smugness has no function or purpose in it.

[–] Hexboare@hexbear.net 15 points 2 weeks ago

"Hah, fine, I'll read Marx"

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions.

"shoulder-grab and that's why i left the Left"

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