• mathemachristian [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    41·
    7 months ago

    Ok? Any particular reason? How does religion manifest all the hardware and political machinery necessary to commit these heinous crimes? It seems to me that capitalism, colonialism, imperialism all have the means to do so but religous institution no longer do. Hell you’d have more of an argument about “religion” being behind genocide back when the Vatican was a major political player.

    Please look for the sources of these evils objectively and not through redditisms. Here is a good video by someone in the skeptic community explaining how imperialists use religion to further their colonial agenda (I know! an actually rational skeptic, no misogyny or islamophobia detected!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hePRA9yVdQE

    • HasturInYellow@lemmy.world
      42·
      7 months ago

      You don’t have the be a cardinal in the Catholic church to be perpetuating and influenced/controlled by the religious institutions oppression.

      People in the same in group work towards the same goals. When those goals are all filtered through the lens of the in group being gods favorite people, it taints every thought from that foundation upwards.

    • Mulligrubs@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      Ok? Any particular reason? How does religion manifest all the hardware and political machinery necessary to commit these heinous crimes?

      Are you unaware that religion is the bedrock of colonialism, capitalism, and imperialism? And that they wield an immense amount of power today?

      The Catholic church owns 177 million acres of land today, more than any other organization on Earth. Untold unfathomable wealth is at their command. And you don’t think the Vatican is a major political power?

      Please realize this is not a redditism, it’s a fact; even this one sect alone has unbelievable power.

      It’s more subtle than it used to be pre Reformation, and that fools a lot of people. Don’t be one of them.

      • mathemachristian [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        2·
        7 months ago

        Are you unaware that religion is the bedrock of colonialism, capitalism, and imperialism?

        completely, especially after liberalisms enlightenment philosophers and the rise of rationalism culminating in the french revolution. I’m not denying the western church is very powerful but it’s not what it once was. Please watch the video it talks about the rise of evangelical christianity in latam by the cia to further imperialism and how a lot of catholics in latam were actually an active obstacle to imperialism.

        • Mulligrubs@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          7 months ago

          I don’t use videos for research, apologies.

          I can read information 10x faster and that is my preferred means.

          Is Catholicism what it once was? Of course not. Is it more powerful than practically any single corporation or other organization? CERTAINLY

          The land alone… and that’s a real tangible asset. All religions combined? that’s a lot of influence.