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[-] willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 19 hours ago

I am more afraid of the billionaires than the atomic bombs.

[-] Denfa@lemmy.world 11 points 18 hours ago

Billionaires own the people who control the means of mass destruction: Trump who suffers from dementia and Hegseth who’s an alcoholic and a moron. They both suffer from brain-damaged levels of stupidity and can be easily goaded into a nuclear attack whenever it suits billionaires to have one.

[-] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 points 19 hours ago
[-] willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)
  1. Billionaires and Capitalism.
  2. Abrahamic religions. (no problem with Voodoo or Shinto or Sikhism or Bahai or ...) Prosperity gospel is not ok. Saying that hell is mostly filled with women and that women are less capable of civic life than men is not ok.
  3. War.
  4. Boom (for some) and Bust (some never experience the downside, some never experience the upside) cycles and economic fuckery like prices bieng too high or just volitile, many rented instead of owned across the board domisiles, ads, paid subscriptions, spam, scams, gamblified everything, climate and energy mismanagement, science and all other legitimate human needs bow to the "need" for profit and lately the "need" for aristocratic rule (Trump and Musk and Yarvin aren't the only ones who want to be kings over me), etc.
[-] rabeya3taqwacore@anarchist.nexus 2 points 17 hours ago

Bahá'i is also an Abrahamic religion, by the way. It basically splintered from Shia Islam.

Prosperity gospel is not an original feature of Christianity nor of Islam. Rich people who've been dodging taxes would certainly populate hell as imagined in these traditions.

[-] willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Bahai is an eclectic remix, redo, reframe of the old "hits". I don't consider it Abrahamic only pecause Bahaullah was inspired by Abrahamic religion. The flavor is completely different, and the behavior too. I don't see Baha'i as a threat the same way Christianity, Islam, and some conservative strains of Judaism are.

What matters to me are not words, but function. What do their clerics preach? What do their doctrinal documents say? I judge every religion harshly. Many doctrinal statements do not pass the sniff test.

That said, the people for whom the religions serve as cultural background, are not simply robots who implement all aspects of relidious doctrine at all times. I judge people on how they live their lives, and on what they want to do in the world as I intimately know and experience it.

So Zohran is great, but not Islam. Talarico is great, but not Christianity. I may agree with many things Pope Leo says, but my world is better without the Catholicism. Etc.

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