In Reply to: And I along many others are tired of the Jewish hatred too. posted by UCLADal on April 29, 2024 at 16:59:36
war. And in my book that pretty much includes everybody who's is in any way noticeably religious. I see it all as religious warfare. Tribalism. An effort to makes one feel better at the expense of everybody else who's not on that team. In some cases low grade religious warfare, but in all cases religious warfare.
Wear a cross around your neck? Well, bully for you. But I see it as you're bullying me and everybody else who's not Christian. Wear a Yamaka? You're telling me you think you're chosen by God and I'm not. A burka? You're telling me something too. And none of it is good.
I'm not going to tell you to f@ck off just because you're wearing a cross, or that you won't eat the food I eat because it's not Kosher (and thus good enough for me but not for you) or whatever, but make no mistake, you are telling me you think I deserve to go to hell. Which is, at the very least, rude.
You don't need to tell me I'm going to hell to tell me you think I'm going to hell (now if you happen to be one of those who does tell me that I'm going to tell you to f@ck off and seek help because you're a f@ucking psychopath). But make no mistake, even if your not damning me to hell on the street corner, and just simply overtly displaying your religion, you're talking to me. And I don't like what you're saying.
You can tell me all day you're not talking to me, but you are. Otherwise, if it was just you and your God you wouldn't need to wear that pray.com t-shirt at the gym. You would just go in the closet and pray. You're talking to me and what I'm hearing is your God is the only true God and everybody else by definition is deserving of various levels of scorn and punishment by said God. Which of course is not just insulting, but dangerous to the point that it's responsible for what we see going on at UCLA, in the occupied territories and all around the world.
While my parents weren't particularly religious the larger family and the community was protestant. I turned out agnostic. So I don't know for sure who's right and who's wrong. However I do suspect pretty much everybody pushing their particular version of largely the same stories is completely full of sh!t. Which makes all the crap it causes even more tough to accept.