Nearly 800 infant remains found in septic tank at nun-run Irish unwed mother and baby home
Nearly 800 infant remains found in septic tank at nun-run Irish unwed mother and baby home
Crews in Ireland have begun excavating the former Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam to recover nearly 800 infant and child remains.
The home, which was run by an order of Catholic nuns and closed in 1961, was one of many such institutions that housed tens of thousands of orphans and unmarried pregnant women who were forced to give up their children throughout much of the 20th century.
In 2014, historian Catherine Corless tracked down death certificates for nearly 800 children who died at the home in Tuam between the 1920s and 1961 — but could only find a burial record for one child.
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Religion is fucked up.
Don’t trust any religious people.
They’re all sick in the head.
Religion is a social cancer. Sometimes it's benign and the host reabsorbs it. Other times it's spreads and kills living tissue
I'd say it's like a tailbone. It was once useful (when we were apes), but has long since lost all purpose. Now it is just a useless appendage and if you touch it the wrong way, you can end up paralized for the rest of your life. We can't go without though, because it's attached to out spine and muscles.
There's only two religions in the planet that do this kind of fucked up shit with any frequency, and it's only because they're the norm in both of those regions. Don't make yourself sound like a literal Reddit atheist. You're here exactly because Reddit sucks. Don't bring it back.
Many people are religious without doing this kind of shit.
Only two? Hahahahahaha
Show me examples of Buddhists, Native Americans, or Paganists doing this kind of stuff. The literal reason Islamism and Christianity are particularly bad is because they're mass-adopted and politicians take advantage of that.
Just remove all religion from politics and there won't be any problems. Human rights dictate freedom of religion AND FROM religion, not just the later.
Have you heard of the Rohingya genocide? Buddhists absolutely do fucked up shit.
I would agree with you that not all religion is bad. But singling out Christianity and Islam as the exclusively bad ones is absurd. All religions have some really important things to teach us philosophically, but at the same time, pretty much every religion has been used to justify some pretty bad atrocities.
And let's not forget what the peace-loving Sinhalese Buddhists did to the Tamils in Sri Lanka.
Holy shit. A nuanced take on religion on lemmy not downvoted into oblivion
All religions are poison. Picking which is worse between lead poisoning or arsenic?
That’s all you bud.
I’ll be poison free.
So like I used to be anti-religion. But when I studied the history of religious thought, it seemed like every criticism I had of religion I was able to find a religious tradition which explicitly accounted for that criticism, and it made me realize a lot of the essential beliefs that I had about religion in general were simply untrue. Like there are religious traditions that literally deny institutionalization (so you can’t even associate religion in general with organized religion), there are literally religions that explicitly reject the existence of any kind of deity (so you can’t even identify religion with a belief in some kind of a god). In general, it seemed like the only thing that literally all religions had in common was that they represented a set of metaphysical beliefs that an individual has attached themself to for whatever reason. And I realized that it’s kind of impossible to never make any metaphysical assumptions about the world we live in. And I started to ask myself questions like “is it even possible to reject the entire category of religious thought in a meaningful way while still retaining the ability to reason about the world?” And “is there actually a good reason why I don’t want to think of my own humanist ideas about the world as religious in nature, or does it just make me feel kind of funny because I had already prejudiced myself so heavily against the concept of religious thought?”
Weird. I had the exact opposite experience.
I find every religion to be a liars den of lies.
And all religious people are liars fools or worse.
Humanism and religion are polar opposite ideas.
Don’t apologize for religion. It’s gross.
Keep that shit away from me and my kids. You bring it near my kids we are going to have a fucking problem.
I feel like you didn’t actually try to understand any of what I just said. I hate to break it to you, but it’s literally just a fact that there are religions that make metaphysical assumptions that are literally equivalent to secular humanism. If you think that they’re actually contradictory, it just means that you probably actually haven’t tried to study the history of religious thought from an actually critical perspective where you didn’t just presume that you already had it all figured out.
I refuse to “understand” anyone who believes in metaphysics.
It’s just more make believe hokum
I really think you should look into what constitutes a metaphysical assumption if you think that you can escape making them
I think you shouldn’t assume someone isn’t knowledgeable about all the different superstitions of the world.
I am, in fact, knowledgeable on this subject.
I have concluded that all of them are bullshit.
Every superstition or metaphysical (lol) or faith based belief system is baloney.
No proof for any of them to be correct.
Not one shred of evidence.
Not a single one.
Dude were done here.
If you think every religious person is evil then I'm sorry, but your religious trauma is not an excuse. Go back to reddit.
Not necessarily evil. But every religious person is damaging to society and the environment out of ignorance, because, for example, their voting is based on beliefs disjunct from reality, including absolute morals that will vilify a substantial part of the populace for no sane reason.
The people are not all necessarily evil. They are mostly indoctrinated and duped. The religion itself is just as evil as any other virus that weasels in.
A lot of words to apologize for evil.
Barking up the wrong tree there comrade.
I've had a burning hatred for basically all religions since the nurses used to bloody me when I was in kindergarten.
But my wife is an ex-theist. Is she evil for believing what she was told until she got out of her little town/church?
No she is not evil.
She managed to escape.
People can be redeemed.
We contain multitudes
No. You go back to church.
Fuck your god.
This is not a position born out of logic and reason, but out of hate. I hope you get better at some point, you obviously have suffered a lot to become filled with rage this much.
This is not a position born out of logic and reason, but out of hate.
Bingo.
All religions are hate groups. EVERY SINGLE ONE.
You nailed it.
You’re so close to getting better yourself.
You’re so close to getting better yourself.
You don’t sound like someone who is doing well, why would anyone want to be like you? The folk replying to you are applying empathy and patience while you shut everyone down with vitriol.
Being angry isn’t fun, anger slowly drains you of your joy and energy. Anger only feels like fun when the alternative is to face pain
Being angry isn’t fun, anger slowly drains you of your joy and energy. Anger only feels like fun when the alternative is to face pain
Bro check out my username. I’m fueled by anger. I got tired of being scared. It brings me unlimited amounts of joy!
Punk fucking rock my man, punk rock.
Speak truth to power and idiots. Remind folks that power is derived from the will of the governed and not the authority we bestow upon our leaders.
Try and armchair psychologist me into being some sad person if it helps you rationalize your own sadness
I’m happy to fight. I waited my whole fucking life for this shit.
Tell me you know nothing about buddhism without telling me you know nothing about buddhism. While we're at it, opinions on hinduism?
Smaller religions have been sacrificing children since the stone age.
I'm not saying its all bad, but singling out two religions in your general area and blaming the problem on them being "political" as if religion isn't based on dictating social norms is ridiculous.
I agree with the freedom to believe, though. Doesnt mean that there arent inherent dangers to this stuff. You're in a thread about murdered babies, please keep that in mind.
While we’re at it, opinions on hinduism?
Well, there was the mass murder of Muslims at the time of India's partition. And the murder of Gandhi by a reactionary Hindu fanatic. Then, there were the anti-Muslim riots organized by the BJP when it was getting started. And now, there's the persecution of non-Hindus by the same BJP now that that snake Modi is in power.
So, I'd say that Hinduism is a vast, diverse family of religions, but brutality and bigotry are certainly part of at least some variants of it.
Almost every religion has some kind of missionary element, trying to spread or enforce its beliefs (and selling it as eternal truth). That’s basically how they survive and grow.
That’s the core problem for me: the need to convince others to believe the same thing. It turns personal belief into pressure, and that’s exactly why I don’t trust any religion.
Yes, it’s not all religions, but … (you should know how to finish the sentence)