• AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee
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        That’s the thing with religious people. They don’t think. They’re told this is what God wants and that’s the end of it. That’s why it’s so important to keep churches out of government.

          • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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            I know but I think it is important to emphasize. God as an abstract concept is not as bad as God as the personal total micromanaging god of Islam.

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              Neither is an abstract concept. They are the same exact deity from the same story and the same origin.

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                No they aren’t. There is a lot of difference between an Enlightenment era diest god, a local tribal god, and a triomni god.

                What do you care anyhow? It isn’t like Islam is monotheistic. They have Satan and dijins.

                • Obinice@lemmy.world
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                  You’re talking about God (such as the god of Islam and Catholicism, which is the same god) and gods, as in the concept of a god, which encompasses sun gods, Aztec gods, etc etc.

                  Usually I find how you capitalise matters here. God with a capital is a name, and talking about the “God” most people talk about.

                  A god, on the other hand, well you get the idea.

                  Anyway in this case we’re talking about the god of Islam, Christianity, Catholicism, etc. This god is the same god, and in English we would call that god “God”. Allah is that god’s name in another language. But it’s the same deity.

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      They must thank Allah every day for America’s Oligarchy gifting the military industrial complex trillions of dollars of tax payer money, and occupying their country for decades, to end up stuck in the same prison as their parents… Instead of the darkest timeline — universal healthcare and climate action!

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        At least it was a chance. We certainly fucked up in Afghanistan but it’s not like the Taliban came back from nowhere.

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          People act like the Afghani army that the US spent years trying to rebuild didn’t just up and run away.

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      I especially like that guy in the back. That could be the teacher, but I guess that it’s someone who observes that the God is feared enough and nothing disallowed happens.

      Makes me wonder how one makes such career choices, too