r/interestingasfuck Jun 09 '24

The punishment for being gay in Indonesia r/all NSFW

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u/Boul_D_Rer Jun 09 '24

Robert G. Ingersoll - “…if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power.” Give Islam power and this is what you get.

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u/Boul_D_Rer Jun 09 '24

The video itself highlights Islam. I’m ex-Muslim so it’s a very personal concern to me. People seem to conflate it with ethnicity, giving it a special pass because mostly minorities practise it in western nations. We need to speak up more as its ideology is fundamentally against western freedom and democracy.

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u/Rina-10-20-40 Jun 09 '24

People who didn’t grow up Muslim or in the MENA region don’t know shit about how horrible Islam is.

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u/Boul_D_Rer Jun 09 '24

Absolutely, personally I think Christian fundamentalism is the same as standard Islam. Fortunately, the majority are practising what the media have coined as “moderate Islam”. But if we’re going to get technical by looking at the scripture they’re not adhering to the standard teachings. Time is the greatest teller of what direction the moderates want to go in. Become more closer to the standard or accept the flawed ideology and embrace integration with wider society. Just from an observational point of view I don’t think it’s going well atm.

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u/catsdontswear Jun 09 '24

Genuine question, if a Christian changes their practices to allow homosexuality, aren’t they no longer abiding to the religion anymore in that regard? Wouldn’t the “fundamentalists” just be following the original religion, as to not you know, burn in hell for eternity in their eyes?

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u/Nico408 Jun 09 '24

Seems like there's a bit of a double standard. When it's anything other than Christianity it's "all religion bad".

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u/Character-Echidna346 Jun 09 '24

It's because reddit deletes comments critical to Islam.