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blaming religion for pissraels crime is like blaming christianity for the colonisation of americas. It's a tool used, not the root cause.
@mathemachristian @HasturInYellow it's' not "blaming" Christianity, it's acknowledging its driving force and purpose : the crusades, the Iberian "Reconquista", the portuguese empire, the Inquisition, all "holly wars" with massive killings, forced conversions, religious taxes and political power as well as plunder, commercial expansion and colonisation.
I strongly disagree.
Ok? Any particular reason? How does religion manifest all the hardware and political machinery necessary to commit these heinous crimes? It seems to me that capitalism, colonialism, imperialism all have the means to do so but religous institution no longer do. Hell you'd have more of an argument about "religion" being behind genocide back when the Vatican was a major political player.
Please look for the sources of these evils objectively and not through redditisms. Here is a good video by someone in the skeptic community explaining how imperialists use religion to further their colonial agenda (I know! an actually rational skeptic, no misogyny or islamophobia detected!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hePRA9yVdQE
You don't have the be a cardinal in the Catholic church to be perpetuating and influenced/controlled by the religious institutions oppression.
People in the same in group work towards the same goals. When those goals are all filtered through the lens of the in group being gods favorite people, it taints every thought from that foundation upwards.
So you actually believe that Satansyahoo and the settler elite are doing this because they are very devout jews and they would stop if they weren't? I'd urge you to watch the video, it's very illuminating
I believe they believe they are.