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maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004
hot take: all religion is equally terrible, join me in the glorious embrace of agnosticism, the one true ethos

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unlimited shrimp
Aug 30, 2008
throw out christ and bring back thor, imo

your friend a dog
Nov 2, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo
A good way to stop islamic terrorism in the west would be to not let muslims in our countries until theyve fixed their backwards culture :-)

Beer Hall Putz
Sep 10, 2005

Unpleasent snacking
They just need philosophy. Teach them cynic philosophy and they'll be too busy masturbating in the middle of the street to think about murder.

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc
Mohammed was a great man, regardless of your religious beliefs

Homeless Friend
Jul 16, 2007

the trump tutelage posted:

throw out christ and bring back thor, imo

Did Thor live in his parents house?

your friend a dog
Nov 2, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo
Masturbating in the middle of the street just makes them indian >: (

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc

Homeless Friend posted:

Did Thor live in his parents house?

No, he has his own place, Bilskirnir

FisheyStix
Jul 2, 2008

This avatar was paid for by the Silent Majority.

OXBALLS DOT COM posted:

Abu Bakr was a great man, regardless of your religious beliefs

ditty bout my clitty
May 28, 2011

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

spacetoaster posted:

That's just human beings acting like human beings you dumbass.

If you want to argue about actual religion you gotta trot out some actual doctrines, not just stuff you thought up while smoking weed.

Forcing cult beliefs on others is not an "outreach" and parroting cult rhetoric is not "educating".

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004
i mean, at this point no-one actually believes in god.

people pretend to be in on the joke because there are social benefits to going with the flow.

now that we have advanced science we should probably just ban all religion.

spacetoaster
Feb 10, 2014

ditty bout my clitty posted:

Forcing cult beliefs on others is not an "outreach" and parroting cult rhetoric is not "educating".

Define what you mean by "forcing". Is that happening often in the west?

hohhat
Sep 25, 2014

the trump tutelage posted:

👏 assim 👏 ilate 👏 or leave 👏👏


Finally we can use the surveillance state for something useful: making sure people aren't wearing the wrong hats.

Nerses IV
May 4, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Agag posted:

Finally we can use the surveillance state for something useful: making sure people aren't wearing the wrong hats.

Personally, I'm more concerned with what's inside their head instead of what's on top of it.

Cnut the Great
Mar 30, 2014

Piss de Bundy posted:

no actually he was really cool and good and had many wives and lots of friends

IMO Muhammad was a real mensch.

hohhat
Sep 25, 2014

Beer Hall Putz posted:

Islam seems unique in it's ability to motivate none-trivial numbers of disaffected losers into murder-suicide. Sikhs and Hare Krishnas aren't conveying to young men, that killing themselves will relieve the pain of their lives and reward them with women/status in the afterlife. Imams are clearly trying to push a more positive narrative for their worshippers, however the lure of violence to secure a better future is appealing enough to create these incidents. All the Abrahamic faiths have a problem with grievance culture, but only one has a chip on it's shoulder against still-existing opponents from the Middle Ages. Islam is clearly a specific problem as a motivating factor for grievance and violence.

Solutions aren't easy, but limiting immigration, more aggressive secularisation and additional mentoring support for young men in Muslim communities may be a sensible start?

Doing nothing and hoping the problem solves itself clearly isn't working, and electorates seem to be (slowly) running out of patience.


There is no policy you could enact against "Islam" that isn't immediately laughable and counterproductive. The more pressure you place on a religion the stronger and more extreme it will get. That's why Evangelicals are always pretending they are under attack.

unlimited shrimp
Aug 30, 2008

OXBALLS DOT COM posted:

Abu Hajaar was a great man, regardless of your religious beliefs

hohhat
Sep 25, 2014

maskenfreiheit posted:

i mean, at this point no-one actually believes in god.

people pretend to be in on the joke because there are social benefits to going with the flow.

now that we have advanced science we should probably just ban all religion.

Sounds easy.

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004

Agag posted:

Sounds easy.

might be easier to change the official religion. right now it's what in england... anglical? protestant? able-to-get-divorced-ism?

we could switch it to something more civilized like LaVeyan Satanism

hohhat
Sep 25, 2014

maskenfreiheit posted:

might be easier to change the official religion. right now it's what in england... anglical? protestant? able-to-get-divorced-ism?

we could switch it to something more civilized like LaVeyan Satanism


Then it could become as respected and influential as Anglicanism.

Punk da Bundo
Dec 29, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
islam isn't whats holding the great nation of albania backwards

also if you want to start a fight that will never end, call an albanian a turk

XxXCaptainNoxXxX
May 18, 2017

by zen death robot

Piss de Bundy posted:

islam isn't whats holding the great nation of albania backwards

also if you want to start a fight that will never end, call an albanian a turk

yea it is. all those ex ottoman balkan countries are holes.

hohhat
Sep 25, 2014

XxXCaptainNoxXxX posted:

yea it is. all those ex ottoman balkan countries are holes.


Not like glorious neo-nazi Poland.

Punk da Bundo
Dec 29, 2006

by FactsAreUseless

XxXCaptainNoxXxX posted:

yea it is. all those ex ottoman balkan countries are holes.

ummmmmmmmm wrong those countries own and have great vacation spots and nobody is fat and sloppy unlike amerikkka

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

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Agag posted:

Not like glorious neo-nazi Poland.

"In an astonishing move that shocked the world, the nazi party of Poland has invaded Germany."

XxXCaptainNoxXxX
May 18, 2017

by zen death robot

Agag posted:

Not like glorious neo-nazi Poland.

Well poland is not a balkan country. And ironically its one of the most put together eastern euro countries so you owned yourself again on multiple levels and I think we all appreciate that.

hohhat
Sep 25, 2014

XxXCaptainNoxXxX posted:

Well poland is not a balkan country. And ironically its one of the most put together eastern euro countries so you owned yourself again on multiple levels and I think we all appreciate that.


I think we all know Poland is in Africa, but nice try.

unlimited shrimp
Aug 30, 2008

Agag posted:

Not like glorious neo-nazi Poland.

the polish princess was a qt in that napoleon biopic i saw a few years ago

Conch Shell Corp
Feb 24, 2009

Poland gonna save europe from marauding hordes for the fourth time and they still get no respect smh

hohhat
Sep 25, 2014

the trump tutelage posted:

the polish princess was a qt in that napoleon biopic i saw a few years ago

Pics plz

Beard Dandruff
May 10, 2017

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the trump tutelage posted:

throw out christ and bring back thor, imo

Calm down there boyd.

FisheyStix
Jul 2, 2008

This avatar was paid for by the Silent Majority.

Conch Shell Corp posted:

Poland gonna save europe from marauding hordes for the fourth time and they still get no respect smh

They get a free social policy every era they advance, it's no surprise they're ahead of the rest of Europe

Fur20
Nov 14, 2007

すご▞い!
君は働か░い
フ▙▓ズなんだね!

Agag posted:

There is no policy you could enact against "Islam" that isn't immediately laughable and counterproductive.

taxes

XxXCaptainNoxXxX
May 18, 2017

by zen death robot

Agag posted:

There is no policy you could enact against "Islam" that isn't immediately laughable and counterproductive. The more pressure you place on a religion the stronger and more extreme it will get. That's why Evangelicals are always pretending they are under attack.

you cant come in

unlimited shrimp
Aug 30, 2008

morally adept posted:

Calm down there boyd.

that boyd aint right

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
wow, poland, beacon of civilization

poland

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004
civilization peaked with the pierogi

Homeless Friend
Jul 16, 2007

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

wow, poland, beacon of civilization

poland

the land that everyone forgot

DrPlump
Oct 5, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

maskenfreiheit posted:

i mean, at this point no-one actually believes in god.

people pretend to be in on the joke because there are social benefits to going with the flow.

now that we have advanced science we should probably just ban all religion.

Atheism is in a hard spot. A large portion of people ego support it would stop if it started a crusade against other religions.

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Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc

Homeless Friend posted:

the land that everyone forgot

The Speed Bump of Europe

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