We would be better off disallowing organized religion in public and forcefully redistributing all excess wealth perpetually.
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No, we should built impenetrable wall between the state and religion, but right to believe and exercise religion is a very fundamental and basic human right.
There's no free speech issue here.
You can practice religion.
That's not what I said.
You are not a victim.
You don't get to have a tax exempt public building where you get to contort the minds of your neighbors into killing minorities.
No more organized religion.
Do it in your house, keep your cult shit out of our public spaces and don't indoctrinate children.
You are not a victim
redistributing all excess wealth perpetually.
what would keep it from re-flowing into the hands of a few?
The perpetual part.
We should also add a clause where anyone trying to unbalance wealth again dies.
Religious persecution and withdrawing of the first amendment.
Some folks would rather destroy unequivocally, if you can shut down one group - all can be shutdown. That's literally what most right wing governments do and exploit, by separating certain people and wantingly ending their ability.
Once it is done, it can be done again and again, each time the lines blur and each times more will suffer.
You talk as a we, parroting the same talking points everyone else already says and believes. So what can you do in your day?
I made a homeless man be honest with me through words alone, I have defended another from himself. He was going to attack a white man with a bikelock for being verbally attacked for his race. When was the last time you traveled as man? To see your rotten upon the streets and acted in care for those truly suffering the wealth gap? Or is it just for you?
What have you done constructive for mankind if you so want them to endure? Is it just to impede?
Nah if they want to run a little cult where everyone thinks what a leader tells them they can do it in their own homes or make their own Jonestown.
They can't do it publicly and they don't get tax breaks for it.
Nobody is stopping you from practicing religion, just your victim complex.
What the other person said, start with one and all with eventually crumble. It's right wing ideology, divide and conquer.
They will hate each other more than they will love themselves. They will rip their arm off to fashion a weapon, just to detriment the other.
Dude my name is literally Jesus and my surname means to supplant. I am saying all this shit against christianity as an organization because it is now just another company, just how the governmeny is.
Religion as you call it is just the english concept for believing in rituals, righteousness, and celebration. Important things for humans to actually thrive rather thanerely survive. However when these ideals are reinforced without needing to think, through ones own experience and life, you get a slave. Someone who will behave for the sake of behaving.
You are meant to be told by your parents truly from their eyes, not a lie that you then have to awaken from. However aprents forget imagination with busy work and whatnot, so making man a god was simple.
God is what we cannot control, and seeing reverence, submitting before their lack of care for you. It is only real because you yourself acknowledge them. In turn you gain insight by noticing patterns and behaviors, and bam you get old world sciences.
Religion is important, organized religion itself is extremely difficult because money itself is extremely difficult.
My name is also a form of Jesus and I 100% beleive Religion is a historical control mechanism to make communities self police before we had the resources for modern law enforcement.
It's no longer a useful tool for humanity and its governments, it's a dangerous weapon left lying around for any con man to abuse.
You can do whatever hobby you want in your own home with consenting adults.
Being able to publicly express their opinions, even religion, is a human right and fundamental constitutional right in any democracy. Stripping it would strip the country of freedom of speech and democracy as whole.
Sure, it's great, but humans have proven time and again that religion causes more abuses over time than not. Yes, tax the rich. Using a religious text to justify it is weird. I do actually appreciate the info as I didn't know this about Islam, but in the same vein it's still religion which inherently leads to systems of abuse and shitting on people in the name of a deity. Not that humans aren't good enough at doing that without religion, but I feel religion just gives them more of a reason when believing they're serving some higher power.
Religion has proven time and time again, man hates happiness of others more than themselves.
Organized religion proves to decay by wantingly creating a structure that can be exploited rather than simply derivative. Islam is an abrahamic religion but it really should just be Christian, and honestly more orthodox than western christians. They love the virgin Mary. So tithing isn't a surprise, as that is a jewish tradition.
Religion should be used because that believing that you serve a higher power is important. However, often times folks believe the higher power is foreign. Rather than within, you are capable, you are lord, you can enact your will. It is only truly religion that explains that this power must be limited, tempered, and weathered to be revealed. It is there for when death grasp's your heart, strangling it until you weep your soul into every action.
Humans are just selfish and forget that if they are sent by god, so were they. That we no longer live in untamed wilds, but manufactured instability. Privileged kids grow up experiencing little death, and live their life time with eyes closed. Yet they think they see with eyes unclouded, but their hearts so empty of meaning.
Sharingan in Naruto is inspired by this very fact.
Good men have no mortal bindings and so they can ascend to serve God's will truly. God's will? Protect the weak, the exploitable, and indefensible. The system is built around moving the lower classes for profit, for labor, or just as polifical pawns in a chess game. That is the only right act man can do, anything else will blur the lines.
As an atheist, I have written god as dead. However I believe we carry fragmentary hopes, and together we can form a god. Sadly, through exclusion, division, and persecution - god cannot exist truly, but incomplete and corrupted. Not everyone is voicing their version of god, gods, etc. Except anime because Japan is massively ahead in the urban hellscape of progress. (And a lot of east asia, Kowloon is an extreme example, sadly it's gone.)
FMA literally was a reforming of the bible's beliefs with antifascist ideology, with reverence for islamic continuation of belief. Attack on Titan is mainly these parasocial fears in a post-nuclear world as collectively cities grow but social development wanes. Isekais literally romanticizes death because life is leaving these natural wonders behind.
I took this journey when my brother was murdered. I believed in no god, and yet I have found a lot of reflections in each manuscript I process, each literature I discover. By his phantom, I became enlightened. I wish I could just have him instead, but all I can be is thankful I am alive.
Elmo give 2.5% of his wealth?
Fuck that shit.
At best people like him should get to KEEP 2.5 % of their wealth. More reasonable, likely, will be TJ jail them as few billionaires can claim to gave gotten there without stepping on the back of someone. Elmo personally should be jailed for life.
Also, we don't need religions for tax. Just tax the rich fucking bastards
Elmo give 2.5% of his wealth?
You seem to be misreading.
Give 2.5% of their wealth, each year, not just give 2.5% of their income. There's a huge difference.
Wealth gets taxed every year, unlike income which gets taxed only once. So in 20 years, the wealth tax is roughly 20*2.5% which is 50%. And in 30 years it's closer to 75%.
That is exactly what I'm saying.
2.5% of his wealth is nothing, he quite easily gains or loses ten times that in a year
Set a maximum amount of wealth per person each year. Anything you earn over that automatically goes into a 100% bracket.
There literally is no reason why one person should be allowed to have a billion dollars in wealth, whilst another person is homeless and needs to waddle into crime to be able to feed themselves
10 million total wealth. That sounds like a reasonably sane maximum anyone should ever have the power over. Anything above that, taxes.
I think Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation pledge means keeping only 7% of annual income and it's still too much.
Anything over 10 million should be automatically 100% tax
Our sister company is Zakat approved and runs water trucks in Gaza using the funds that people donate
What company is that?? Sounds amazing.
Dont want the name out here, but PMd it to you.
The individual must realize that he is no more than the steward of this property, which is fundamentally the possession of society; this must make him accept the restrictions that the system lays upon his liberty, and the bounds that limit his rights of disposal. On the other side, society must realize its fundamental right to such property and must thus become bolder in prescribing the regulations and in laying down the laws which concern it. Thus only may we arrive at principles that will ensure complete social justice in the profitable use of property, which cannot be an end in itself nor a subject of actual ownership. The clearest instance of this is the matter of the tenure of land; thought cannot conceive that any man should be the owner of the land itself; all that he can possess is its irrigation and its crops, which means that the matter is one of the profitable use of a possession rather than one of actual ownership.
Sayyid Qutb spends much of this chapter in Social Justice in Islam insisting that it’s not full on socialism, but it’s definitely not free market capitalism.
In part, he has to write a lot about how not socialist he is because of the popularity of Islamic socialist movements. They were huge players in Egypt and Iran.
One can debate how those inspired by Qutb have kept to his ideas, but the society he describes is very much focused on ensuring everyone has enough to eat. (It’s also a society where I end up stoned to death in a public square, so you win some you lose some.)
Islam at least also forbids interest. There’s a complicated banking system, and I’m pretty sure there still are ways to fuck people over, but getting broke people trapped on the payday loan cycle at least isn’t one.
interesting. i had heard that Islam does apparently not have private land ownership (?) and a friend told me that 200 years ago, they didn't even have actual borders between countries (and, i assume, villages or administrative districts?) thus it was all a continuous area with names and region designations being rather vague. i wonder whether that has to do with the idea that land cannot be possessed by some kind of monarch or king? do you know more about this?
A couple of other interesting discussions about different types of property rights in that article too. Critical to keep in mind that it’s a religion and that there are multiple traditions/legal schools of thought. (Shia versus Sunni is the biggest rift, but there are others.)
Fear of Islamic socialism was why the US kept the Shah in power.
As far land borders - that is seriously a huge and complicated and difficult topic. (Numismatic research - coins - often shows how often we don’t really have documentation of what was happening. Kingdoms that are only known to exist because they put out a few pieces..) That’s the kind of topic that people do post doc work on.
Despite all our faults in Islam, Zakat is such a good/common sense idea.
Anyways, despite living in an Islamic country i doubt our billionaires pay zakat anyway. If they're fine with butchering, prostitution drinking and drugs i think they're going to sleep just fine at night not paying their tax.
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This must be why the UAE is such an egalitarian country... 😅
i mean, leaders of theocracies blatantly ignoring the parts of their religion that they don’t like is nothing new lol
Hence why all religions should be abolished.
We don't need religions to do basic taxes. Just keep upping those brackets until you reach 100% of income and 50% of ownership per year. See how fast the rich become normal people
Ah yes straight up remove religious freedom. What a reasonable idea
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One of the recipients of Zakat funds are islamic terrorists. Not a horrible idea in principle though, but I think it's much more interesting that Swiss cantons have wealth taxes, because, you know, because Switzerland is a pretty decently working economy. In stark contrast to almost every muslim nation out there.
i'm between downvoting because it mentions "terrorists" (which are often just people trying to do right) and upvoting because it's interesting information that switzerland has a wealth tax. i didn't know that.
What's wrong with the word "terrorist" in this context?
One of the recipients of Zakat funds are islamic terrorists
???? Source?
In stark contrast to almost every muslim nation out there.
Maybe if your countries stopped bombing, invading us and murdering our children, we'll be able to develop.
??? Source?
https://islamqa.info/en/answers/46209/categories-of-zakah-recipients -- #7
Maybe if your countries stopped bombing, invading us and murdering our children, we’ll be able to develop.
What country do you think I'm from? That may explain it for some countries like Palestine area, but it definitely does not explain why many muslim countries (where "muslim country" = >50% of inhabitants are muslim) have the weakest economies and the highest income inequalities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_by_country
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita
https://islamqa.info/en/answers/46209/categories-of-zakah-recipients -- #7
IslamQA is not a good source. Even muslims debate on it.
What country do you think I'm from?
I was talking about europe/america in general. But you may not be from there.
Anyways i apologize for being combative.
but it definitely does not explain why many muslim countries (where “muslim country” = >50% of inhabitants are muslim) have the weakest economies and the highest income inequalities
You're going to specify what you mean by muslim country. Do you specifically mean the arab world? If so, most if not all countries there have problems beyond just religion. Usually history of colonialism, [civil-]war or dictatorship, which unfortunately in my above point, most were caused or elevated more by those countries.
Is terrorist what you call all brown people?
- The Poor (Al-Fuqara):
Those who do not possess enough wealth to meet their basic needs.
- The Needy (Al-Masakin):
Individuals face financial hardship but have some resources that are insufficient to cover their necessities.
- Those Employed to Administer Zakat (Al-Aamileen):
Individuals employed to collect, manage, and distribute Zakat.
- Those Whose Hearts are to be Reconciled (Al-Mu’allafat al-Quloob):
Individuals who are inclined towards Islam or those whose hearts need to be softened towards the Muslim community.
- Those in Bondage (slaves and captives) (Fir-Riqab):
To help free individuals from slavery or captivity.
- Debtors (Al-Gharimeen):
Those in debt who cannot settle their debts with their current resources.
- In the Cause of Allah (Fi Sabilillah):
Individuals engaged in activities that benefit the broader Muslim community, such as scholars, educators, and those defending the Muslim community.
- The Wayfarer (Ibn Sabil):
Travelers or strangers who are in need while away from their homes.
Seems bribery.
Bribery for what
European don't be racist challenge, literally impossible
Please inform me which part of my comment you imagined to be racist.
"It's not racist if it's true!!!!"-ass comment.
Mostly the beginning. But also the end
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