Witches follow a religion, you know, tbey aren't an atheist group they are expressly pagan, you're calling the people who claim to support cruel and barbaric
You're mostly right, but it seems you're using witch and wiccan as the same word. You can be a witch without believing in particular gods or goddesses. Wicca is a particular religion.
That’s a sweeping statement. Absolutely possible to be an atheistic Pagan. There are so many branches of Paganism throughout history who worship no gods. Witches (Wicca, not Christianities definition of ‘witch’) can be atheist
Christian nationalism =\= Christianity. You don’t have to disparage all religion because a few hypocritical fundamentalists purposely misunderstand their own religion.
We wouldn’t have had the abolition or civil rights movements in this country without progressive Christian activists.
This. Christian nationalism is not Christianity. They may have adopted the name, but they do not follow the teachings of the Christ. Their blond haired, gun carrying Jesus is nowhere to be found in scripture.
Think about your statement. That logic can you be used to smear any identity group because of the actions of a subset of its members. My comment was merely explaining why the original post as written could legitimately be flagged as intolerant.
We wouldn't have needed abolition or civil rights without Christians. Yall love to pretend the problem is just a few people and not the overwhelming majority of the religion. All Christians are christian nationalists
"Bigoted generalizations?" The Christians burned women alive out of fear, stupidity, obedience, and for being patriarchal asshats. That's not "bigoted" or a "generalization," even if you do want to be oppressed.
I’m agnostic, but the vast majority of religious people I know are decent people, and calling their belief system the “enemy of humanity” is for sure bigoted
While “enemy of humanity” is perhaps too strongly worded, religion is still just a collective assertion of belief with no tangible basis used largely to control people with a byproduct of providing a coping mechanism. Also why we can’t have nice things.
Religion is applied philosophy. Throughout history, it has been, to put it lightly, applied in horrifically wrong ways. But that is an indictment of the people applying it, not the concept itself. I’ve personally seen faith be a powerful tool for healing for people who really need it
Exactly , religion allows hate, this time of year, look up YULE and see how the Christians stole from the Pagans to start their Christmas 😳You will also that historians believe Jesus was born in the spring ‼️Oh boy, those Christians are great at marketing 💯
They stole Easter too, ever wonder why it's all bunnies and eggs? It's a pagan fertility festival for springtime. Christians co-opted a lot of holidays in order to bring more people to their religion.
Absolutely, they are great at marketing and many Christians don’t realize that since the start of written history, there have been more than 5,000 gods named💯So I just hope that they pick the right one 🤔😂😂
Yeah I've never understood that "my God is the only right God" behavior. Then again, I'm an atheist and kind of a lousy Buddhist. (I'm great at the meditation part, I have trouble believing in things like reincarnation, I'm just not good when things lack proof, but meditation has shown its utility)
I am an atheistic Buddhist as well
All the Best and stay with the meditation, it is wonderful☮️☸️
I even took Transcendental Meditation years ago, amazing🙏
Oh I don't think I could possibly put it down at this point. I'm 42. My dad taught me to meditate when I was eight. I don't know how I would manage life if I didn't do it, lol.
Interesting, Tim! Could you explain why YOU are the Holy Grail of information, you seem to deny that other ideas are not legitimate, what proof do you have to legitimize your posts, I am open to your answer ☮️
Not all “theories” are equal. Some are based on evidence and scholarship and others … aren’t. The idea Christmas was stolen from Yule is simply wrong. Christians were celebrating Christmas centuries BEFORE they came into contact with anyone who celebrated Yule. BEFORE. Understand?
Where’s your proof, not knowing you and your background, I am eager to hear why you should be believed, no offense, but facts are important especially in a country that puts a felon in the presidency, I am sure that you understand 👍
Normally I trust your opinion, but I will continue research, remember that opinions are like arm pits, everyone has a couple and sometimes they stink😂😂enjoy the holidays and keep up the good work that you do☮️
Appreciate the meme, but ffs note the "witches" are literally and figuratively smokin' babes. Many "witches" were older, single women (think fairy tale hags) who lived around forests making herbal potions which sometimes caused allergic reactions in patients, resulting in accusations of witchcraft.
They burned people, far more men than women. For every "witch" burned, at least 10 men were killed for heresy (and another several women executed by other means).
Practically everything has been a Lie and they're still Lying! I'm so grateful that I escaped it and lived MY Life. It's not in my nature to Lie about what I am and it never has been. Be your most authentic self.
The problem isn’t your headline, but your scholarship. In early America, third generation Puritans burned witches. Quakers, Deists, and most other denominations did not.
—Mr. Satan’s apprentice
Buddhists wiped out somewhere around 1/3 of China's population at one point. After the Taiping Rebellion, they went around massacring the Hakka (an ethnic minority, many of whom were Christian) that wouldn't submit to Qing Buddhist control.
I have never once had an appealed label removed. I’m an artist and occasionally post works that feature or involve nude figures which I will label as artistic nude and Bluesky will add sexually explicit when they are clearly not.
Yeah, yeah those women priests and the matriarchy of the church! What a dufus you are 😂
Lady Bathory was accussed of killing children because many many men owed her money and they prefered to kill her instead of paying back their debts.
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dumbass, the villagers killed them.
It was literally teenage girls, and some younger, that started the Salem Witch Trials. Well, and fungus. The women of the village started it, and worked the village into a frenzy.
You cherry pick an instance to tell me what? That it's women's fault??
You just proved my point because you are still witch hunting. You would be one of those men that burned women because they ignored you or because you wanted their land.
Congratulations
The topic was witch trials...
I picked the single most famous instance, and the one that was the largest series of executions in a single populace.
That isn't cherry-picking.
You're clearly just a misandrist who thinks men are the cause of all the world's problems.
victims of the Salem Witch Trials were taken to the infamous Gallows Hill to die by hanging. The elderly Giles Corey, meanwhile, was pressed to death with heavy stones after he refused to enter an innocent or guilty plea. European witch trials execution by fire was a disturbingly common practice.
In the case above, the execution of "witches" is the original violence and intolerance. So then how can the condemnation of it be a violation of the social pact?
Isn't all religiously based intolerance a violation of justice?
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I thought it would be the intolerant people burning women who were... intolerant.
They want your children straight, white, armed and angry.
MAGA must Lie, Cheat and Steal! Abortion. Guns. Equality. End Christian nationalism!Maga is the CONFEDERACY!! https://www.npr.org/2022/06/02/1102621352/how-the-southern-baptist-convention-covered-up-its-widespread-sexual-abuse-scand
Some religions simply don’t feature any god, and even if there weren’t any, anyone could just make one up.
That’s how religion works.
We wouldn’t have had the abolition or civil rights movements in this country without progressive Christian activists.
September.
The Gregorian Shift would put it in September.
https://historyforatheists.com/2017/04/easter-ishtar-eostre-and-eggs/
All the Best and stay with the meditation, it is wonderful☮️☸️
I even took Transcendental Meditation years ago, amazing🙏
(Also historians don’t agree that and we really have no idea when he was born).
https://historyforatheists.com/2024/12/pagan-christmas-again/
If I want people to change, I know I have to reach them with love.
Do you want people to embrace truth? If so, how do you think you’re going to do it?
Some things never change
—Mr. Satan’s apprentice
Lady Bathory was accussed of killing children because many many men owed her money and they prefered to kill her instead of paying back their debts.
And they had dozens of mutilated corpses...
you're a fucking joke.
dumbass, the villagers killed them.
It was literally teenage girls, and some younger, that started the Salem Witch Trials. Well, and fungus. The women of the village started it, and worked the village into a frenzy.
You just proved my point because you are still witch hunting. You would be one of those men that burned women because they ignored you or because you wanted their land.
Congratulations
I picked the single most famous instance, and the one that was the largest series of executions in a single populace.
That isn't cherry-picking.
You're clearly just a misandrist who thinks men are the cause of all the world's problems.
You should be intolerant to intolerance. It’s morally correct.
Isn't all religiously based intolerance a violation of justice?
Look at the state of it. There isn't any.