You're so fucking stupid you can't see that they're both the same fucking thing. All religions are the same bloody thing.
in fairness, to just hold religion responsible isn't helpful either. it might be more constructive to explore deeply ingrained power structures to understand why some regimes may rely on religion to justify extreme brutality.
My general view is that religion gives the veil of social acceptability for bigotry. I'd have more respect for someone who had the balls to stand up and say "actually I am just a bit of a cunt", rather than using an accent book full of bullshit to justify it.
The core social function, regardless of any messages, of organised religions like Islam or Christianity is to regulate and control sex and reproduction.
And money. Always money.
Of course. Or more generally, property.
Property rights, for one. Ever since the change to settled agricultural societies with hierarchies of ownership, there has been an imperative to control sex and reproduction in particular ways. The particular sins of organised religions have grown from that.
If the objective is to repress sexual desire as much as possible in order to restrict sex to marriage, it can be seen as part of that process. The very act of desire is being made into a sin. Of course, desire, when repressed, doesn't disappear, it oozes out sideways in destructive ways.
wtf
The DUP are opposed to it.
The Church of Scotland has both female and openly gay ministers, and has had for a while.
Utter tosh. The core social function of religion, as machiavelli pointed out, is to justify the state and its power
Which one?
