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"Religion does not teach morality. It instils fear of retribution. That's not morality. It's obedience through mental terrorism."
You can't claim to be a good or moral person with celestial extortion hanging over your head.
The only way to know if you're actually good is to see what kind of person you are when making your own decisions through un-coerced free will.
Unrolled ongoing thread: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1282404647160942598
Currently up to 185 instances. For example:
“c@nC3l cUlTurE d0eSnT eX1sT!1!”
Yes, the thread links to all its sources. No, it’s not all <insert your favorite site to dismiss as “fake news!”>.
For those playing at home, this list, begun Jul 12, 2020, is now up to 205 specific, referenced and linked, cases.
It’s worth noting that #165 has its own sub-count, from 165a upwards (165b, 165c, etc), currently at 165m. So the number is more like 218 cases.
These are the latest four cases:
Perhaps you can demonstrate these are “rich people who think they are above accountability” - even with “accountability” being your own nebulous definition, to a standard you decide. Unless, of course, you’re just plain old gaslighting.
Like how being tortured for eternity is just god holding people “accountable” for their sin, in thoroughly reasonable proportion to the “crime.”
Because, this is simply me holding you “accountable” for your actions and statements. Don’t worry, I won’t go after your job or your college enrolment.
Good thing you’re infallible, beyond reproach with no skeletons in your closet or your social media history. Except, you know, this one.
Oh, and also Following my blog. I’ve talked at length about the pedophile prophet. Do I deserve to lose my livelihood? Do you, since you Follow me, and are therefore associated with my “Islamophobia”? Will someone going through your Tumblr figure out your “Islamophobia” and “Julie Burchill” you? You know, because “accountability,” right? That’s all it is, just “accountability.”
You sure are lucky you’re flawless and perfect.
“He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone“ - John 8:7
Religion reduces empathy.
Jennifer Senior of the New York Times described it best when she wrote, “purity tests are the tools of fanatics, and the quest for purity ultimately becomes indistinguishable from the quest for power.” In Cancel Culture, the powerful don't give forgiveness, they take revenge.
“Think of people as people, not as abstractions,” writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie exhorted in her 2018 Harvard commencement speech. People are “fragile, imperfect, with prides that can be wounded and hearts that can be touched.” But an apocalyptic culture is not interested in wounded hearts. It wants to destroy, not heal. It wants retribution for moral impurities, not forgiveness for kids. And it uses the new tools of social media to accomplish its apocalyptic goals.
Anyone who says that what happens online doesn’t matter hasn’t been a target of Cancel Culture.
Yet.
Ideology and dogma blind people.
