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submitted 11 months ago by kher@lemmy.world to c/general@lemmy.world

After the ban of the c/christians community for having a rule against LGBTQ+ content. I wonder where is the actual line of what is allowed and what is not on this instance. (https://lemmy.world/post/1762563)

There are plenty of instances allowing hate speech against religious people. Looking through them I can see how they can be pretty offensive for someone who was brought up religious.

For example !atheistmemes@lemmy.world.

From their description

No Pro-Religious or Anti-Atheist Content.

Some of the content:

To clarify, I do not feel offended, as I am in no capacity religious and I am an atheist also. I also do not ask for the removal of that community as I don't believe neither of the two should be removed.

But going through the content on atheistmemes the content there is far worse and more offending than it was on c/christians. While on c/christians only the rules where marginally breaking the rules, while there were no content that was in violation. This community in my opinion does both.

Allowing anti religion community while banning the pro religion one is creating a real deficit of different opinions here.

What is your opinion? Do you think that one should be allowed while the other not and why?

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[-] PineapplePartisan@lemmy.world 40 points 11 months ago

It’s understandable as the religious people also migrate away from Reddit. The fediverse cuts down their stupid “equal time for dissent” argument. The fediverse explicitly enables them to fuck off and start their own instance where they can put up their own rules and federate with whoever they want.

I’m with world on this one. Punch the damn nazis in their faces. No false arguments about tolerance here.

[-] kher@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

It is absolutely outrageous to call religious people nazis.

[-] Kalkaline@lemmy.one 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Right? They're way more likely to be neo-confederates or KKK members than they are to be Nazis.

[-] blanketswithsmallpox@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago

Not all Nationalist Christians are Nazis... but almost all Nazis are NatCs.

[-] MonsieurHedge@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago

Evangelical Christians and Nazis share most of their positions.

[-] kher@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

I do know some hardcore Orthodox Christians, and they are some of the kindest people I know. Far from being nazis

[-] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

Nice Nazis are still Nazis. You may not be their target group yet, but it will come.

[-] TinyPizza@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago

The two are different. My mother and the mother of my childhood best friend are some of the kindest people I've ever known. In the past 5 years I've discovered they support putting people in cages, selective human rights, and general Q adjacent beliefs that came from nowhere that I could see. They both are religious, not hardcore orthodox by any means, but both are indoctrinated weekly and it has changed them fundamentally. They're still extremely kind and generous but don't mistake that they would absolutely agree with a religious based government and whatever killings it deems necessary.

A decade ago I would have bet a million dollars I'd never hear those things from either of them. You're right, they aren't nazis. They're Christofascists.

[-] dsemy@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

This is such a fucking wild take - I doubt you’d actually say that to a religious person’s face, let alone punch it.

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