• OpenStars@piefed.social
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    1 hour ago

    Going off on a tangent here, I dislike it when people use that phrase “Jesus Christ!” like that. I get that religion has caused much of the evil in this world… (arguably less so than capitalism but… whatever!:-P), though that doesn’t (shouldn’t) matter. It demeans us to sink to that level, whatever our own personal thoughts are on the matter, and regardless of the particular target. / end of my Ted Talk here

    And like, isn’t that the meaning of Rule 1, where generally “othering” a group is a strong no-no (the chief one in fact, hence it appearing first)? Granted that religion is a choice unlike e.g. race or sexual preference, but even so? Jesus himself was an extremely chill dude - “Love Thy Neighbor” and all of that - so it’s not his fault that after his death people later abuse his name to gain personal power, using it to do things like diddle children, which is vehemently NOT what “love thy neighbor” meant there!?!?!?!

    Star Trek shows us a world where we can rise above all that:-). A famous person semi-recently said: “when they go low, we go high”.