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what's your hexbear unpopular opinion?
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i'll start: most "vote blue no matter who" liberals are actually good people (not including terminally online liberals as anyone who is terminally online is a bad person)
kill the redditor in your head.
there are religious marxists, it doesnt invalidate any of their leftist stances.
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Religion is often the only remaining space for a shared sense of community and culture, in a world that is increasingly being reduced to crass market relations.
The USA has a particularly abhorrent strain of Christianity, please don't judge all of religion for it.
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a) not harassing the few religious users
b) imagining a targeted minority on the end of every criticism, instead of the prosecutors. like it's technically correct that 'christian' is a characteristic shared between MLK and a baptist minister calling for lgbt genocide from the pullpit, but it's a bit dishonest to act like socialists are talking about the former types when yelling about christians.
c) sometimes people say incorrect things in criticism of christianity, and we've a heady collection of pedants that dunk on that. i don't think it really counts as 'defense', but anyway
As a fellow religion hater for the exact same reasons as you, it might help to seek out a different perspective and talk to people from different walks of life. There are plenty of Christian gay/queer people, there are plenty of people who lived under colonialism and neocolonialism that are Christian. They managed to square the circle in a different way to us religion haters, and it's worth listening to their perspective.
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Yeah for you and me, that is true. For them, it is not. Otherwise they'd also leave their religion like us. That's what I mean by listening to other people's perspectives. Openly Christian gay people clearly think there is nothing in their religion that requires them to discriminate against themselves, and it's interesting to listen to why they believe that. Maybe they believe certain bible verses are taken out of context, that old testament laws don't matter anymore, or who knows, maybe something else. I don't know because I'm not religious.
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And our goal is to create a new world, where that isn't the case. Not to try to cling to whatever pre-capitalist fragments we can.
this isn't exactly unique to the USA and it isn't unique to Christianity either, let alone the USA prosperity flavour of it
More importantly, POC tend to be more religious than white people. In the US at least, only Asian Americans are less religious than white people. Every other ethnic group is more religious than white people. We do not need to make Hexbear even whiter than it already is.
militant atheists are not a good vibe that's for damn sure. having an aversion to religion is fair. I've seen my white friends struggle with shit that I just do not understand with their weird white church stuff. I don't really get it, but I try. still wanting to exterminate all religion kinda seems like an overreaction?
my Latino upbringing was nothing like that. when I quit being christian I hopped naturally from the ambient curanderismo I grew up with right into trying to find my way into nahua spirituality. 🤷🏾♀️ not to say that religion can't be harmful or that there's something inherently good about my spiritual practice. state religion? probably always going to end up fucking people up. i don't disagree there.
Religious evangelical POC are rewriting the chilean constitution to ban abortion and were a factor in the rise of Bolsonaro in Brazil a few years ago.
There is a growing religion fever around here and its being mobilized to attack anyone who is not a cishet man
Edit: Im not anti religion on hexbear perse but I totally understand why marginalized people would be
Lmao imagine making a site more
because you pushed for absolute atheism.