It's a way to deal with cognitive dissonance. If they consult the material reality behind these conflicts they'd have to face up against the fact their countries are supporting a supremacist ethnostate that is committing genocide. They'd rather pretend that both sides are equally blinded by religion than see the imbalance.
Aside from this, my acceptance that lower‐class Christians can be just as revolutionary as proletarian atheists is the most important reason why I quit being a stereotypical atheist snob. No doubt the Church tried repeatedly to teach peasants that their lot in life was divinely ordained, but a great deal of Christian peasants revolted against their masters anyway.
More recently, there is liberation theology, normally understood as a Catholic phenomenon, but by a loose definition it can include other Abrahamists. I don’t believe that these are forced attempts at reconciliation; I think that these people are being perfectly sincere when they say that belief in God feels natural to them but submitting to the status quo does not.
Theism may not make sense to me, but I don’t see the point in arguing about it with others either; deconverting them to atheism wouldn’t make a big difference. Personally I’d rather be in the company of Christian socialists than atheist anticommunists (and there are plenty of the latter around).
It's a way to deal with cognitive dissonance. If they consult the material reality behind these conflicts they'd have to face up against the fact their countries are supporting a supremacist ethnostate that is committing genocide. They'd rather pretend that both sides are equally blinded by religion than see the imbalance.
Aside from this, my acceptance that lower‐class Christians can be just as revolutionary as proletarian atheists is the most important reason why I quit being a stereotypical atheist snob. No doubt the Church tried repeatedly to teach peasants that their lot in life was divinely ordained, but a great deal of Christian peasants revolted against their masters anyway.
More recently, there is liberation theology, normally understood as a Catholic phenomenon, but by a loose definition it can include other Abrahamists. I don’t believe that these are forced attempts at reconciliation; I think that these people are being perfectly sincere when they say that belief in God feels natural to them but submitting to the status quo does not.
Theism may not make sense to me, but I don’t see the point in arguing about it with others either; deconverting them to atheism wouldn’t make a big difference. Personally I’d rather be in the company of Christian socialists than atheist anticommunists (and there are plenty of the latter around).
❤️ Im not gonna get a better excuse to thank you for all the insightful posts about nazi germany and the zionist entity I see posted by you.
Or they'd get called antisemitic by all their lib friends and are afraid of that