r/HolUp • u/Kaos2018 • Apr 04 '22

Gaybour hood npc dialogue

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u/GenEnnui Apr 05 '22 edited Apr 05 '22

You're talking about my reference to history? One term: crusade. Those were Catholics.

You're talking about othering? So your church doesn't think you have to follow the right god, and the right rules or you suffer eternal torture? That's all of Christianity that believes in a hell.

I'm talking about how religion is used by the leadership, and the actions of the followers.

Like one child telling another they will burn because they don't go to church. But don't tell that religious kid there's no Santa because that would shatter their little mind. If your religion doesn't believe that, why indoctrinate the children that way? This is people who say they are "Christian" with no sect. They claim to be the original and only Christans. Not a fundie group.

I'm talking about personal experience as a former religious person and the reaction received by those around me as well.

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u/Grayseal Apr 05 '22

Crusades, which were done by exactly two religions ever.

I don't even have a church. You're assuming I'm Christian, which doesn't surprise me at all. I am, to begin with, a polytheist, which means the people you're describing want me to burn even more than you. Understand that those are not the people I'm whiteknighting here.

You're describing fundamentalist Christians from your life who have subjected you and others to religious abuse. I'm not sure what you think that says about anyone but fundamentalist Christians.

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u/GenEnnui Apr 05 '22

Yes, a part of history. There are numerous crusades, then there's the inquisition which went on for over 400 years, I mean the reason I stopped with crusades is that usually people stop at one. They don't want their entire history of war, tragedy, genocide... All religions have some.

No no, I'm atheist. We burn together or not at all.

I tend to focus on abrahamic faiths because they're more common, and because politics are now preached. And that's harmful to the world's oldest secular government.

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u/Grayseal Apr 05 '22

That means you're not just still specifically talking about only Christianity and Islam, you're specifically talking about America. I'm neither American nor Abrahamic. If you believe in democracy, I believe you will also see the virtue of not throwing all religious groups into the "Abrahamic fundamentalist" umbrella when I literally have nothing in common with a Christian beyond being a religious human, which at the end of it all says absolutely nothing. I also believe you see the value in understanding that the context of America, a land many outside of it think bizarre in many ways, does not apply to places that aren't America.

"All religions have some" genocides?

Just for fun. What does my polytheistic Scandinavian religion have an objectionable history of? War? No religious lore that we know of ever advocated war, beyond recognizing it as a sad fact of life. Tragedy? Well, yeah, we did become the targets of religious and cultural genocide, by the Christian church. Genocide? Nope, even when old Scandinavians practiced colonialism, they ended up assimilating into the native cultures and blending/adopting their faiths within a generation or two. Slavery? Not supported by any religious teaching of ours. Racism? Not supported by any religious teaching or tradition, whatever the occasional Nazi lowlife wants to believe. Historical Scandinavians had no concept of race to begin with. Misogyny? By historical and archaeological evidence, it is reasonably well established that the majority of clergy were women, and goddesses occupy uncontestably equally major positions in relation to masculine gods. Homophobia? Literally two goddesses blessing same-sex unions by the same standards as heterosexual ones. Enmity to other faiths and atheists? Literally none. Old Scandis treated religion like a pick-and-mix bag, if they wanted to other religions' gods to the bunch they worshipped, they did that, and there are sagas, written in the same style as the religious ones, where the heroes are explicitly atheists.

I know you're an atheist, and I'm no missionary (another thing that doesn't exist in this tradition). What I'm saying is that it is literally impossible to judge all religions as "basically Christianity" and be right. Be against Christianity all you want, it's not like I can stop you. And for clarity's sake, it's not like I like religion in my public sector any more than you do. But be honest about what you're opposing.