RE: How do religious folks reconcile violent concepts in "peaceful" Abrahamic religions?
April 11, 2017 at 10:15 pm
When I was Catholic I was all about "the example of Jesus".
You HAVE to cherry-pick. I was very loosely religious and disregarded huge chunks of The Bible. I saw it as an outdated mark of the time they were written and/or intended to be symbolic.
You HAVE to cherry-pick. I was very loosely religious and disregarded huge chunks of The Bible. I saw it as an outdated mark of the time they were written and/or intended to be symbolic.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
