It’s funny to me that you say this because thinking don’t this one, humans are just anthropomorphic primates that have decided that we’re the best. Humans will do anything to try to separate us and then make religion as thing and go humanity hasn’t starts until this one carpenter made a cult. Try to use the whole we think where we come from are conscious and have a society we can talk have a language and look st each other differently ; SO DO ANIMALS!!!

I bet salmon look up at the moon and glance and wonder what it’s all about but humans need to put a reason to it.

Apex predators aren’t even better than anything else out there they can just eat whatever the fuck they want. Let’s not forget the how many ice ages and cave people and the religion free Neanderthals and ages of time where animals bigger than the tallest building roamed in the land, sea and air.

Humans are a fucking joke even if you strip away religious things and all that humans are a fucked up species that unless it’s our pets, seeing a dead animal in the street going to the zoo or hunting we don’t give a fuck.

Like you know how they say eyes are the gateway to the soul well Steve Irwin knew it and he looked at other animals like an animal and respected them for what they were, that’s why he was so special and it’s so fucked up that anyone who can do that, who can truly have a bond with the creatures that are surrounding us, our fellow animals are the people who get called having a way with animals when it’s really just connecting in the way that we are them.

The people of Iran are generally quite nice. I wouldn’t call the entire country a shithole just because its run by fundamentalists

I remember the people of the Iranian diaspora being so happy about tenuous Trumps war, thinking he would help change the regime.

Trump doesn’t help people, he doesn’t care about anything but himself.

I’ve read about this before. It’s worse than you think. It’s not done all at once and she doesn’t know when it will happen.

73 would have been much more reasonable.

I think the difference is less that Islam is behind the curve and more that Islam is disproportionately practiced in theocratic nations. Religious echochambers that are largely monocultural get really fucked up really fast. Mormonism and all the fucked up shit in Utah. Hasidic Jewish communities, and israel. All the theocratic Muslim nations. Theres a reason the bible belt’s version of Christianity is more fucked-up than the version you more often find in the rest of the country. If I remember right its the Buddhist majority group carrying out a genocide in Myanmar – and I feel like in the west we tend to think of Buddhists as pretty peaceful.

An echo chamber normalizes things that otherwise wouldn’t be accepted as normal, and allows them to exacerbate themselves, and religions tend to have some fucked shit burried in them that shows up when it doesnt have to be rationalized to outsiders. You tend to see that fucked shit a lot less when the people practicing those religions are also in community with folks who aren’t part of their religion.

Which to be clear, is true of many things not just religion. You can also see it in pockets of political echochambers online, even on the fediverse, but online theres always the risk of context collapse, in a way that gets less and less true as a region becomes more monocultural, as tends to happen under theocracy.

It’s unfair to imply that Islam has been stagnant for a millennia, when in reality numerous scholars from across the globe have contributed so much to Islamic jurisprudence and still do. “Islam” is a very wide notion and cannot be reduced to a historically and spacially specific vision thereof. You cannot find the same Sharia law in two Muslim countries. Some countries even accomodate different Islamic rites by providing them with parallel legal systems.

I don’t have a problem with Islam That being said as an atheist who thinks all religions are insane

Stop being a weak bitch, just go with the second sentiment full throttle. It’s the correct one.

Iran is the first time in millennia this kind of Islam has been a state

Edit: Am I wrong? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shia_Islam

You’re not wrong, he definitely helped the Ayatollahs.

This woman in Aceh got 100 lashes:

The woman’s flogging was briefly paused because she could not bear the pain, according to an Agence France-Presse reporter in the field.

Apparently she survived it though.