• Andrew@piefed.social
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      You can see the video that was originally quoted here: https://xcancel.com/billmaher/status/1844938477512675654#m

      Bill Maher seems aggressively unfunny to me, but the gist of the video is that it’s a open letter to Chappell Roan (who is pro-Palestine), saying that Israelis aren’t colonisers, because the Bible mentions that they built a temple in that area before others in Middle-East settled there. It seems like a questionable claim to me, and there are plenty of replies to the video disagreeing with him.

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        I mean, the Bible also mentions exactly how they drove out and murdered the Canaanites that were living there before them. Sounds like a coloniser to me - not that they were special for doing that, in their day.

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        The bible also says that you’re supposed to murder noncombatants during war. I think we should discount the old testament as a guide of any kind

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      The New Atheist movement led by figures such as Richard Dawkins have recently changed their mind from “all religions bad” to “Islam bad”.

      Richard Dawkins: I’m a Cultural Christian

      This affirm previous suspicions that the most hardcore atheists were simply Islamophobes. Coincidentally they are also the staunchest deniers of the genocide in Gaza.