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      24 days ago

      Please explain to me how queer people are a threat to Western governments.

      You mean…liberals themselves hysterically painting transgender people as a “threat to liberal values” isn’t enough for you?

      Content warning - it’s very liberal.

      I mean… did you really think the colonialists brutally imposed heternormativity on the colonized world for shits and giggles? Or do you perhaps suspect that it has somethng to do with the vast resources flowing from the colonized world to the liberal empires and the cheap, expendable labor that makes it flow in the first place?

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        24 days ago

        Yes, I know right-wing people hate queer people. That doesn’t answer my question. If it is governments, not religions, that are the cause of homophobia, what threat do queer people pose?

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          Yes, I know right-wing people hate queer people.

          What did you think right-wing ideology exists for? What did you think the status quo is?

          That doesn’t answer my question.

          You really don’t know any of this, do you? Fine.

          None of this is a secret anymore, you know - you could have found this all by yourself.

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              24 days ago

              Maybe find a better source

              No. It’s a perfectly fine source for a lot of things - that is, unless you prefer the “objective” centrist claptrap I showed you first?

              It’s your choice.

              No evil in this world can ever be traced to religion.

              More reactionary atheism… and you’re still stuck in a dead-end.

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                24 days ago

                It’s clearly not a fine source as I showed you.

                But fine, if I’m stuck in a dead end, name three evils that religion is responsible for.

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                  It’s clearly not a fine source as I showed you.

                  Again… it’s a perfectly fine source - anyone that tries to convince you that there is, or has ever been, such a thing as a “far left” has already dealt their own credibility a crippling blow.

                  name three evils that religion is responsible for.

                  Which one of the hundreds of thousands that has existed over the last six millenia would you like to focus on? Remember… your argument - the same argument that all reactionary atheists peddle - wholly rests on the hopelessly ahistorical presumption that there is something fundamentally “evil” about religion. In order to prove this argument, you have to find a pattern of the exact same “evil” in the religious practices of a whole bunch of pre-modern civilizations (both large and small) than the ones you attribute to modern day ones.

                  Reactionary atheists have all failed at this - most don’t even try, and simply pretend this big flaw in their anti-scientific pretzel-logic doesn’t exist.

                  Wanna try your hand at it?

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                    24 days ago

                    I never said there is something fundamentally evil about religion. Those are your words, not mine, and I would appreciate you not putting words in my mouth.

                    All I asked for is three things. You can’t even do that. Are there zero evils religion is responsible for?

                    I see no reason to “try my hand” at anything you ask me to when you won’t do what I asked you to do first.

                    So. Three things. Any religion. Can you list them?