Martijn BAARDADec 26, 2022
After only one year of Taliban rule, girls and women have almost disappeared from Afghan society. They are not allowed to travel, to work alone, to go to public parks, to talk or laugh in public, and they are not allowed to study and to go to school... Photo: Boushra Almutawakel
Show threadPonygirlDec 26, 2022
@baarda "Religion poisons everything"- Hitch
Show threadJCF 🍻 🎸 🇨🇵 💻🐧Dec 26, 2022
@Ponygirl
Not religion but extremism
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Show threadSir LoinstakeDec 27, 2022
@JCF @Ponygirl @baarda The OP was right. Religion is a human construct designed to oppress
Show threadJCF 🍻 🎸 🇨🇵 💻🐧Dec 27, 2022
@sirloinstake
Actually a religion is made to find answers to the inexplicable, the magic, a way of life, the meaning of life. With religion cames habits and coutumes, celebrations (just see solstice pagan celebrations)... But also extremism wich open the door to hate, opression, etc.
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Show threadSir LoinstakeDec 27, 2022
@JCF @Ponygirl @baarda If you put it like that, science is the new religion and God (in whatever shape or form) has no place in it
Show threadJCF 🍻 🎸 🇨🇵 💻🐧Dec 27, 2022

@sirloinstake
No because a religion suggest also a part of mysticism (spirits, gods, places), legends (heroes, stories, places too) and as I said, a way of life, habits and coutumes, so culture to (food, dress, etc). And TRY to explain inexplicable...

Science is made of facts and History, allow understand "why" with clues, improve the life and possibilities (medicine, engineering etc).
Transfom Magic is not magic because (explanations and comprehention)...

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Show threadJCF 🍻 🎸 🇨🇵 💻🐧Dec 27, 2022

@sirloinstake

Magic is just science that we don't understand. And science that we don't understand can be TRY to be explain by religion as "it is God' Will"

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Show threadPonygirlDec 27, 2022
@JCF @sirloinstake @baarda "Real magic is fake, and fake magic is real" -Matt Dillahunty
Show threadJCF 🍻 🎸 🇨🇵 💻🐧Dec 27, 2022
@Ponygirl
And when magic is understood, it is not magic anymore neither religion thing... It becomes science
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Show threadPonygirlDec 27, 2022
@JCF @sirloinstake @baarda I think I agree with this, but I can't think of anything religious that has become science. Any examples?
Show threadJCF 🍻 🎸 🇨🇵 💻🐧Dec 27, 2022

@Ponygirl
Meteorological and geological facts for example. 😉

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Show threadPonygirlDec 27, 2022
@JCF @sirloinstake @baarda Maybe some wonder emanated from religious teachings, but people investigated irregardless of religion.
Show threadJCF 🍻 🎸 🇨🇵 💻🐧

@Ponygirl
Not everything is to be thown away in religion: hope, kindness, strength, be strong minded, resilent is a certain way, self-belief and self-confidence, love, compation etc.

Actually, human values.

A God conception is made for it, not for war, anger, profit, oppression...

@sirloinstake @baarda

Dec 27, 2022 at 2:31pmWeb
Show threadJCF 🍻 🎸 🇨🇵 💻🐧Dec 27, 2022

@Ponygirl

I fact the one or the population who have a restricted view of a religion (or anything else subject actually) can not have a good judgement of the situation and will be extremist with the whole subject because of a little part of the subject.

After all, it is human to see the 10% od bad instead of the 90% of good

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