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Cake day: July 31st, 2024
  • imblue@feddit.orgtoCasual Conversation @lemm.ee•I fucking hate Christmas.English
    2·
    19 days ago

    Oh please, show some empathy. Here’s a guy mourning the death oft a loved one and this is the first thing you can think off ? Talking about world politics ?

    We all know Iraq was a fucked up war ! We all know Bush junior blatantly violated international law ! We all know american soldiers committed unspeakable crimes against iraqi civillains !

    But don’t say that to somebody who just opens up about their grief. That’s just being an asshole, even if you’re supposedly correct. Show some decency.

    You can be an empathetic and understanding human being without compromising on your political ideals.

    Pissing off your fellow citizen, leads nowhere but to further resentment.

  • imblue@feddit.orgtoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.works•Religion
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    1 month ago

    Well it depends:

    Science and Religion are not opposing forces:

    You can study religion at the university using the scientific method. That is comparing different religious texts, analysing the historical context of the religious texts, explore how religious tradition evolved over time.

    Also I have a hard time imaging a society without religion. People will always believe in something, be it fate, astrology, crystals. And people always have. Religion is a big part of our culture. Not talking about it will not undo it. We have to talk about it and and we have to teach about it. Teach about the atrocities commited in the name of religion but also the fascinating ideas religion has left in our culture. Such as the idea that you have a moral obligation to help the vulnerable, beyond your personal interest.

    And teaching should not be left to your weird aunt or some strange people on the Internet. Teaching needs expertise and should be done in the best interest of the child.

    A society founded on laicism gives no democratic voice to the issues of religion. Religion becomes a private matter and will only be taught by false prophets with a private interest such as making money from scamming people or gaining political influence.

    The public must fund religion for it to be free and it must also make sure that there is no religion who actively undermines the constitution. Tolerance only works if there’s a minimal consensus on the fact that we have to be tolerant and how we resolve conflicts in a peaceful way and this minimal consensus should be the constitution.

    So it always depends on your current point of view:

    Are schools filled with proletyzing fundamentalist ?then yes you might need less religion and more science in school or more scientific method in your religious teaching

    But are your kids so uneducated about religion that they blindly believe everything they are being told about “gods will” ? Then please reintroduce some religious teaching in your education system. Let them work on the sources.

    Here’s an interesting example of this

    Dlf Islamunterricht - Schwieriger Weg zur Normalität im Schulalltag https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/islamunterricht-schwieriger-weg-zur-normalitaet-im-schulalltag-dlf-e73dc633-100.html

  • imblue@feddit.orgtoSolarpunk@slrpnk.net•Earthship (sustainable architecture style)
    5·
    2 months ago

    They look very cool indeed. Tailoring the design to harnes naturally available energy sources instead of relying on the grid is great. Also increasing sustainability by making it easy to service makes sense. The only thing I fear is that if everybody wants to live in a single story home, the world will be plastered with housing and there will be no more agricultural land left to produce food.

    Also this https://slrpnk.net/comment/12346938

    We must achieve sustainability as a society not as individuals. And while the latter is our main leverage it shouldn’t actively undermine the former