Re:An Indian man in prison for cracking 'offensive' jokes
by hobs on Thursday November 15, 2018 @01:58PM
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Religiosity has had a stranglehold in "the west" and defined it at least a thousand years. This is not a muslim problem.
The evangelicals are alive and well.
Re:An Indian man in prison for cracking 'offensive' jokes
by intended on Friday November 16, 2018 @06:47AM
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It’s the same for every religion. Muslims were just the first to appear in an article for me .
Hinduism, Christianity - all of them have the same pattern of behavior.
Re:An Indian man in prison for cracking 'offensive' jokes
by merpnderp on Thursday November 15, 2018 @02:03PM
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And thank god for that. Before western religion came to the forefront, the idea of individual worth wasn’t really a thing and 99.9% of the world were either some sort of slave or slavemaster.
Re:An Indian man in prison for cracking 'offensive' jokes
by hobs on Thursday November 15, 2018 @04:43PM
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Didnt downvote you, but Christianity has constant themes of slaves and masters, being a slave to christ, and historically the cultures which adopted christianity have continued to have slaves (pre and post adoption.)
Sooo, maybe? But I dont know if that point is well made.
Re:An Indian man in prison for cracking 'offensive' jokes
by merpnderp on Thursday November 15, 2018 @05:06PM
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It obviously wasn't a fast transition, but Christianity brought around the concept of absolute religious equality. A novel idea to the world, and likely the catalyst that changed thousands of years of slavery.
I know it isn't in fashion to credit Christianity with anything, but what other philosophy of the era could have eventually ended slavery, given slavery is likely the state of man ever since Grog the caveman threatened his brother-son with a beating if he didn't fetch more water.
The first inkling I had that something was off, was a magazine article talking about rising religiosity in middle eastern countries.
That’s the first time the movie, where humanity pushed back religion and superstition, had tracking issues.
we saw that increasing wealth meant even bigger displays of religious dedication.
It turns out that a large part of the world has not had reason to go through their version of the enlightenment.
But while they were gaining the ability to improve GDP, the west was busy applying science to marketing, and business acumen to news reporting.
Effectively - we (humanity) used the tools of the enlightenment (science) to improve marketing, and apply it to religion. We targeted weaknesses in human thinking, and ruthlessly built bubbles of voters who didn’t need to fully understand the world to succeed.
My conclusion is that we were naive.