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This is the official Lemmy for the r/ReligiousCringe***** subreddit. This is a community about poking fun at the religious fundamentalist's who take their religion a little bit too far. Here you will find religious content that is so outrageous and so cringeworthy that even someone who is mildly religious will cringe.
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It isn't causing a genocide in Gaza. It wasn't the cause of the Crusades. It isn't why the Kurds were genocided. You're right. Religion never causes conflict. In fact, I'm listening to the Last Podcast on the Left series on the Lori Vallow / Chad Daybell murders where being ultra-rightwing Mormon nutjobs also didn't cause conflict.
What the hell are you saying? Capitalism kills. Religion kills.
Root cause of the genocide on Palestinians is Western colonialism.
The comment you replied to is deleted, but I do partially agree with what you're arguing against. Usually it isn't religion that causes the conflict. It's greed. Religion is the excuse that those in power use to motivate those beneath them to die for them.
I'd argue that any religion that survives to become powerful only does so because it allows for greedy people to take advantage of it too. These people will use anything they can to gain more power. If the religion they're following doesn't then they either modify it or change to a different one. If the religion fundamentally doesn't allow for this abuse it won't be spread.
Religion is bad because it creates a power structure that's easily abused, and it makes it easy to turn people against each other. It isn't actually religion as a concept that causes this though. It's that it can easily be taken advantage of. It's a tool. There are many others like it, which we should also be wary of, like nationalism for example.