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Re:The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media by pstuart on Sunday June 27, 2021 @01:56PM (#27653660)
I was writing up a sibling reply and then caught the last word of the flagged statement. Using "fables" is dismissive and contentious.

I agree with the assessment but perhaps if it was phased as:

"Yes, because they believe that they need to be on the side of Israel for their anticipated apocalypse."

Or something like that. Unfortunately "people of faith" tend to take any sort of criticism of the mechanics of their faith as a personal attack. Pity.

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Re:The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media by simondotau on Sunday June 27, 2021 @09:12PM (#27657064)
> Unfortunately "people of faith" tend to take any sort of criticism of the mechanics of their faith as a personal attack.

An unavoidable consequence of any belief system which assigns significant personal reward upon faith, because criticism of faith places their personal reward into question. More unfortunate is how secular institutions are unintentionally rewarding people of faith for having a thin skin by so eagerly accepting it as a signal to quash criticism. I'd argue that nothing "tramples curiosity" quite so much as the systemic disappearance of criticism in the public square.

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