Important distinction

Religion is ignorance and refusal to face reality.

As long as people behave, treat others, and vote according to the sacred scriptures written by a crackhead thousands of years ago, and their influence shapes the world around me and puts a limit to my freedom, then there will be no distinction between religion and extremism. The lesser of two evils is still evil.

We should be fighting religion.

Religion is not a useful tool and it's not good in general

A distinction without a difference. Religion produces demonstrable harm to many people. To be religious is to be an extremist. The entire idea that a being from your imagination should influence my behavior is whack.

Institutionalized religion is bad, religion for yourself isn't imho. I can understand the need for answers, although I don't necessarily need them. I think that is part of tolerance, to accept the believes of others.

I think the argument for moderation is the worst in the religious context.

Pascal was right about his Wager in one way. If god exists, it should change everything for you. Especially the christian one. Eternity in pain or pleasure outweighs everything.

If that is your reality, how is failing god moderation?

Seriously if you don't want people to die from cancer at all, how is that not extermist?

Are reference point defines "moderation"? Look at us vs eu politics.

Even if you want to define moderation as the average or median position in a society, then Nazism can be moderation if you get enough Nazi together.

Wake up, my fellow extremist.

We should be fighting

Tbf extremism itself isn't wrong. Any perspective can be considered extreme if it is too different from the status quo. Different isn't necessarily bad.

Granted religious extremism is typically far right reactionary ideology which is bad so I'm not really defending it. However, I find that a lot of people, especially Americans, call anything that radically challenges the current system extreme and therefore bad.

“extremism” is what neoliberals invented to liken egalitarians with Nazis to make themselves look good.

No, we should be fighting religion.

You can't fight either directly. Fight stupdity and both go away.

Worst meme of the day for sure

Every time someone uses extremist as a pejorative

Tell me you are a Christian who is sad that people keep calling out how Christians have vitriolic hatred for their fellow man with telling me you are a Christian.

Also anyone get a strong feeling that by extremist, OP means Muslims not Christofacist in the US

Both. Both. Definitely both.

Sounds like a pretty extremist view there buddy puts on my fighting skirt

If extremist = trying to convince others, who are not interested, to join you relligion, then I agree

I'm sorry, no hate or incivility intended towards you as a person, but this idea is pandering centrist bullshit.

Neither, fight the conditions underlying both.

Probably shouldn't be fucking around with other countries either unless directly attacked.

This thread is full of stupid, my eyes hurt.

True, but.. like... Can we also do both

Classic American perspective in the comments.

You know, a lot of regions have religions that aren't cults. Also tv mega churches are not common in the old world.

Ok, but why in meme format?

Interesting meme

Religion doesn't hurt anyone if you accept everyone's beliefs and don't go too far with your religion

Classic American perspective in the comments.

You know, a lot of regions have religions that aren't cults. Also tv mega churches are not common in the old world.

I recently visited reddit and was horrified to see how many people there say “Lol he believes in sky dady, his opinions are worthless, ban all religion” and even some extreme comments like “All christians are pedoes” and I am seeing this rising slowly on lemmy as well

Any sort of extremism is bad, whether that’s religious, political or atheistic(?), and thats what we should be fighting, banning hijabs is not gonna do any good

Guess the name of this Darwinist extremist! (hint: he was fundamental in establishing Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27th)

"In the struggle for daily bread all those who are weak and sickly or less determined succumb, while the struggle of the males for the female grants the right or opportunity to propagate only to the healthiest. And struggle is always a means for improving a species' health and power of resistance and, therefore, a cause of its higher evolution."

I'm sure many of you will find a clever way to justify his murder of eleven million Jews and other "weak" people, and dragging half of the world into the deadliest conflict of all time, all because of his extreme application of Darwinian evolution theory.

Yes. It's Adolf Hitler.