svelteciderMar 6

What is a belief you’ve done a total 180 on?

https://lemmy.ca/post/61396220

What is a belief you’ve done a total 180 on? - Lemmy.ca

I used to be strictly materialist and atheist. Now I’m pretty spiritual. Don’t necessarily follow a religion and don’t support bigotry but yeah, I’m fairly spiritual now. This is a recent development and I never thought I’d be here like 5 years ago.

Show threadTheWeirdestCuntMar 6

Idk why we’ve reached the point where anyone saying they’re anything but an atheist has to specify that they aren’t a bigot. Being religious doesn’t make you a bigot and being atheist doesn’t mean you aren’t one either.

I had a similar 180 though, I used to be an atheist but in the last year or so I pivoted into druidism. Turns out following a religion that focuses on spending time in nature helps to get you out of the house when you’re going though a depressive episode.

Show threadnymnympseudonymMar 6

an atheist has to specify that they aren’t a bigot

Being religious doesn’t make you a bigot

Looking at the entire history of (a) faith-based religion, versus (b) evidence-based science

I have to say:

  • learn history
  • fuck you, you ignorant evil-enabling asshat
    • Show threadRentlar
    Certain units of the Japanese Army conducted a lot of inhumane scientific experiments on human subjects they racially discriminated against during WWII, and the evidence collected was retained by the USA.
    Unit 731 - Wikipedia

    Mar 6 at 4:31pmWeb
    Show threadrumschlumpelMar 6

    I want to note that none of this was valid science, the results were worthless because they prioritized torture and didn’t document their “experiments” and their results properly.

    Though it’s true that you don’t need religion to do evil acts.

    Show threadproleMar 7
    Maybe the Japanese Empire didn’t, but the Nazis were explicitly Christian.
    Show threadrumschlumpelMar 7
    Not really. They were certainly white supremacists and hated Jews, but Christianity didn’t really play a big role in their ideology. They spent a lot more time supressing local churches than going on about how christian they are, and many of them were very interested in pagan religions.
    Show threadproleMar 7

    This is revisionist bullshit.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Nazi_Germany

    en.wikipedia.org/…/Catholic_Church_and_Nazi_Germa…

    …ushmm.org/…/the-role-of-clergy-and-church-leader…

    …ushmm.org/…/the-german-churches-and-the-nazi-sta…

    Religion in Nazi Germany - Wikipedia

    Show threadNostraDavidMar 8

    the Nazis were explicitly Christian.

    Eh, publicly Christian 100%, but there were plenty of anti-Christian views from Goebbels, and then there’s the Occultism in Nazism as well.

    That being said, Positive Christianity was 100% a tool to manipulate the people into doing the State’s will, trying to eject Catholicism from Germany.

    Religion in Nazi Germany - Wikipedia

    Show threadTollana1234567Mar 8
    the us thought they were getting a deal from the japanese when they conducting biological experiments on chinese people, but they were getting all fluff results