Well it seems religious people in any part of the world are stupid and crazy.
homosexual dictatorships
I mean… I’m cishet, but I’m willing to give it a go. Probably better than what we have around here.
Idk why but I thought of this
Don’t threaten me with a good time
What’s with the star of David swastika mascot 👀
The swastika doesn’t have the same associations with the Nazis in Asia
What does even “homosexual dictatorship” means? Will they oppress straight people? 😂😂
The terrible oppression of letting people different than me have the same rights I have.
The people who want to oppress LGBTQ people literally can’t fathom that they wouldn’t oppress them right back if they had power.
Everybody must be homosexual now, no hetro sex allowed!
These people are hilarious, and dangerous
It has long been a Christian lobby rallying cry that the mere mention of homosexuality will bring about their imagined “homosexual dictatorship”, a prophecy that includes crumbling family structures, crashing birth rates, an AIDS pandemic, and gay soldiers surrendering en masse to a North Korean invasion.
Ah, yes, this is a very important issue to South Korea. They wouldn’t want to lose their position as the -let me check the notes- second country in the world with the lowest birth rate. Rigid and traditional gender roles are working great for them so far, it’s not like men and women hate each other over there or anything.
Isn’t it #1 now since Hong Kong was gobbled up by China?
Aaaand that would be correct.
Christian missionaries and post-Korean War Americanization have wrought some truly terrible things on Korea.
Everywhere.
Count me in, that sounds fabulous!
Religion ruins everything and everywhere
you’d think south korean radical christians would be more concerned about the rampant sexism and misogyny that’s plaguing the country
Conservatism is a vile, deadly plague that needs to be extinguished.
I’m all for radical religious groups being defeated.
My question is, why do we constantly lend credence to their hateful ideas? Why constantly report on how they feel as if they’re the standard bearer of…—well, as if their opinion even mattered? We don’t get constant updates when other hateful organizations are upset over the people they try to oppress. Normalize ignoring these people.
Go ahead and say anything about Islam on lemmy and see how fast it gets taken down.
I’ve seen a lot of criticism towards Islam from positions of defending secularism and opposing fanaticism, which I think is neat. If I see someone attacking Muslims from positions of bigotry, I don’t think that’s so neat. Do you understand the difference?
It depends on what you’re saying. People—especially people from the US—very quickly move from/confuse criticizing Islam as an inherently flawed organized religion to straight up Islamophobia. After 9/11 Islamophobia was pretty much institutionalized, so most US people online today either grew up in that or grew up in a more racist/intolerant time because they’re older.
There is a difference. But people don’t know how to deal in nuance on the internet. So “hey, I think Israel is committing genocide” gets funneled into straight up antisemitism. The same is true for criticizing Islam. Or any religion. Or any thing. People try to out-righteous each other and end up on the wrong side of prejudice. Well…I guess there’s no right side of prejudice. But you know what I mean.
The only thing I disagree with is your use of the word “confuse”. They aren’t confused, they know what they are doing. It really isn’t that hard to keep two ideas in your head
- People should be allowed to have whatever religion they want
- Religions are shit
Islam has the second highest body count of any religion. More people have died from it than every religion of humanity accept Christianity. It is fundamentally, on the text level, a violent faith. That doesnt mean anything about people born into it. You can have a violent god and not be a violent person.
