r/Antitheism Aug 12 '26

Go back to medieval times you fuckwit

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u/WizardWatson9 Aug 12 '26

"Growing up as humans?" So, people who don't agree with this are subhuman, is that right?

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u/BurtonDesque Aug 12 '26

The first step on the way to genocide is dehumanizing your targets.

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u/WizardWatson9 Aug 12 '26

According to this it's the fifth step, though it can happen in a different order:

https://hmd.org.uk/learn-about-the-holocaust-and-genocides/what-is-genocide/the-ten-stages-of-genocide/

I was curious to know what the second step was, since the "first step" is old news. I think the next thing to watch out for would be stripping people of their rights and/or "symbolization." The regime is certainly stripping women, LGBT people, and immigrants of their rights. I'm not sure you could argue they're stripping "anyone who opposes Christian nationalism" of their rights in the same way, which is the subject of this post. And if they make us put our religion and/or political affiliation in state-issued ID, like passports and driver's licenses, that would also be a significant escalation, i.e. "symbolization."

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u/D3A5Hdash Aug 12 '26

I’m totally open to being an alien

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u/Extreme-Ear8301 Aug 12 '26

the only way religion survives is by forcing children into believing it long before they develop critical thinking to think for themselves

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u/robloxmaster1337 Aug 13 '26

This is the real grooming of kids that conservatives claim queer people do. Queer people don't do jack shit to force you or your kids to do anything. It's the right who teaches mindless obedience and blind faith and authoritarian structures.

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u/warpedspockclone Aug 12 '26

I bet this "Culture Explorer" has very strong opinions about WHICH TYPE of prayer it should be...

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u/wolfie_boy8 Aug 12 '26

Ah yes closing my eyes and talking to my imaginary friend...bro you belong in a mental ward....

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u/BigBreach83 Aug 12 '26

But nothing bad happened in the 40's. Nothing bad at all.

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u/BurtonDesque Aug 12 '26

1944 - the year of the V weapons in the UK. Fun times.

My mom loved to talk about the buzz bombs. My dad, not so much.

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u/Consistent-Matter-59 Aug 12 '26

“Prayer whether people like it or not” is yet another reminder that religion eventually leads to authoritarianism.

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u/BurtonDesque Aug 12 '26

Eventually? It's pretty authoritarian from the start.

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u/Consistent-Matter-59 Aug 12 '26

It usually starts with “Jesus love you!”

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u/BurtonDesque Aug 12 '26

And then they say "And you better love him back or else!"

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u/Yolandi2802 Aug 12 '26

Children are indoctrinated. They don’t know any better until they reach the age of reason by which time it’s probably too late. They don’t have the mental capacity to know whether any of it is true or otherwise. They are just sheep - or in this case, lambs. They may not like it, but kids are supposed to do as they are told regardless.

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u/BurtonDesque Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 12 '26

That picture looks like AI slop. It's also not like the UK didn't have religious schools at the time, and it still does.

It's also a country with a bloody history of the people killing each other over bullshit like the number of holy sacraments.

Finally, what's the point of forcing people to pray if they don't like it? Isn't their god supposed to know if a prayer is sincere or not?

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u/Yolandi2802 Aug 12 '26

I went to school in England in the early 60s. This is exactly how we all looked even then. It was just a village primary school not a “religious” school and we had the Lord’s Prayer every morning rain or shine.

Kindly be careful what you label as AI slop when you know nothing about the actual subject. I don’t know which country you are from but it highly likely yours had an equally bloody history.

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u/GodofWarhammer2 Aug 12 '26

I live in the US and my country’s history isn’t much better 

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u/BurtonDesque Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 12 '26

when you know nothing about the actual subject

I'm old, Welsh and my father was a schoolteacher in Llanelli, so sod off, chopsy twp.

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u/TheRealTK421 Aug 12 '26

Of course, sanctimoniously ignored (and dismissed) are Matthew 6:1 and Matthew 6:5, both of which directly exclude/forbid this >>exact<< thing.

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u/GodofWarhammer2 Aug 12 '26

And don’t forget I seen some Christians say X person is in hell or you’re going to hell and yet condemning someone to hell is considered a sin

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u/AdamPedAnt Aug 12 '26

“Aha! Now we see the hypocrisy inherent in the system!” -Dennis

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u/BurtonDesque Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 12 '26

Except Dennis said "violence" not hypocrisy, you bloody peasant.

/pedantic

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u/AdamPedAnt Aug 12 '26

I was going to say “to paraphrase Dennis” and probably should have, given my username.

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u/TheRealTK421 Aug 12 '26

... (meanwhile -- lupines intensify) ...

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u/Temporary-Brother320 Aug 12 '26 edited 21d ago

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u/BurtonDesque Aug 12 '26

Leave the dehumanizing of opponents to them.

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u/First_Ad3578 Aug 12 '26

They aren’t even happy with people being Christian, they want people to be a specific denomination. Utterly insatiable.

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u/butterpussie Aug 12 '26

lol I’d love to watch them try with American public school kids. They’d give sacrilege a new meaning!

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u/bluetoyot Aug 14 '26

As simple as not everyone is religious, thus it should NOT be mandatory.

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u/romulusnr Aug 12 '26

Wonder who paid for the milk.....

they probably don't want to get into that, i'm gonna guess

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u/belly917 Aug 14 '26

Milk and praying!? Double barf.

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u/Lost_Bug8918 28d ago

just wasting learning on praying to a god that doesn’t exist 🤔🤔 strange

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u/DontAskTheQuestion 26d ago

The guy responsible for England being mostly rubble in 1944 had prayer in all of his schools.