Religion is perfect for making normal people act like a bunch of sociopaths.
” Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”
You gotta source that quote, fam. I wanna know ^^
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful
Lucius Annaeus Seneca. All it took was copying the line into Google. I’m surprised how often people forget that they can do this.
Yeah, but have you tried Googling that “quote” supposedly from Madonna?
I was hoping you guys might think I was clever enough to come up with it.
/s
Religion is exploited by actual sociopaths to justify their behavior.
Religion is exploited by actual sociopaths to justify their behavior.
(most forms of) Religion is constructed to be exploited by actual sociopaths to justify their behavior.
FTFY
“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.”
– Steven Weinberg
I tried to come up with a more palatable comment, and all I can think of to say is “fuck these stupid jackasses”.
Naw, that about sums it up. It’s depressing and pathetic.
It works for me.
Can you imagine your purpose in life being “the guy who makes sure people’s scarves are good enough”?
Oh they salivate for it. Some people will jump at any chance to be a fascist.
“Oh no the Ferengi don’t want to stop the exploitation. We want to become the exploiters!”
Can you imagine your purpose in life being “the guy who makes sure people’s scarves are good enough”?
A more accurate interpretation: Can you imaginer your purpose in life being the guy who directly enforces oppression of women?
They get off of the idea.
Not at all.
Does this mean all of the protests from a few months back are done?
It’s got to be hard to maintain the momentum once the government decides they’re fine with murdering the protesters. The Iranian government also let women go without headscarves for this long, I imagine as a way to let the temperature cool. They never intended to repeal the law, only let the protests disperse letting the protesters think they’d won that small concession.
They’re probably banking on protesters not being able to use Twitter to organize.
If only there was a way to have Twitter like features spread across hundreds if not thousands of independently owned servers that could join together in a sort of union or federation, if you will, as they see fit for their purpose. Oh well, I guess I can dream.
"Morality police " rapists and co come up with the fanciest names for themselves.
It’s time for organised Iranians to start making Basijis disappear.
“morality” 🤣😂😭
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Hopefully they protest even harder now, but we’ll see.
In the end, they could be executed. It won’t be easy.
Isn’t that why the protests started in the first place? A girl was beat to death by them? I don’t see what they’ve got to lose.
They could be executed themselves. The stakes are very high.
Religion.what a fucking joke.
Woman, Life, Freedom
As I said months ago. In a war between the diet version of something and the pure version, the diet one always loses.
It wasnt about a secular government and freedom to not worship, it was about the rules being relaxed a bit. You don’t fight to the death for showing your hair you fight to the death for sky-daddy.
Until they are willing to burn korans they will continue to live in a theocratic state.
What are the Democrats the diet version of?
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corporate butt-kissers (as in: the republicans are deeper up corporate anuses)
Begging the question.
I’m not debating anything you said, just making conversation. I liked your idea of diet vs. pure, but wasn’t able to figure out if it fits into American politics as they currently exist.
I think it doesn’t, because Dems aren’t very well characterized by the “pure/diet” dichotomy.
Dumb question, but the headscarf’s purpose is to cover the women’s hair, right? So what if all protesting women go bald to piss the religious guys off, would that work?
fight back
Since Iranian men can’t control themselves, women have to cover up.
A lot of the protesters were also men. Several of them had been shot and killed
Blame the oppressive government and religion, not the people. They’re the victims.
‘Morality police’ sounds like a mockery, not the actual name they’d call themselves 😂
My guess is that it’s a translation
