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scarletfasinera · 1 year ago

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All of the responses I keep reading on the antitheist post (because I hate myself I guess) about hell being abusive to teach children all going "actually you're just talking about CHRISTIANITY because JUDAISM doesn't believe in hell" as if Christianity and Judaism are the only religions ever. as if there aren't literally thousands upon THOUSANDS of religions out there in the world that have some kind of concept of hell that is used as a form of power and control to scare children and threaten people into submission within it. But sure, your one or two religions you can mention off-hand that don't have a hell-like concept are the reason the "antitheist" part of the post should be written off and the reason you can try to reduce the post to "just being about christianity". ok.

#txt #I hate to tell you this but you cannot make that post about one singular religion because it APPLIES to many #and it IS an anti-theist position to take in a world where MOST theistic religions have a concept of hell?????#sorry all of the “just say christianity. this post is clearly only about christianity.” responses to OP's post are SO ANNOYING #and if you glance for a second you can see countless people in the notes saying “yeah i was raised with [non-christian religion] -#- and our concept of hell traumatized me”#there's like this strange thing where bc people are scared of being racist they somehow think that criticizing organized religion is racist #like if you believe all Muslims are terrorist bombers that want to kill you then THAT is Islamophobic!#But criticizing a religion for it's religious qualities being used to harm people within it is possible to do #without being racist/islamophobic/antisemitic/sinophobic/etc #Like I don't know how to tell you that Christianity isn't the first or the last religion to have hell in it!#and like that literally IS a cartoonishly evil thing to threaten children into behaving with! Which many religions do!#and there needs to be a space where people can be ex-[non christian religion] without feeling lost & alienated & shouted down!

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