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      “With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.” ―Steven Weinberg

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          “Inverse Law”? You do realize there’s no such thing, right?

          If a man can eat a hamburger, does the “inverse law” mean a hamburger can eat a man?

          Lemmy is wild sometimes…

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      Worse: religion on the other side of the world did this. It was US Evangelicals who spent decades and tons of money to make this happen.

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      Straight up. A while back Nazi incel Nick Fuentes defended child marriage and grooming, and most people in the replies agreed with him.

      The relationship between pedophilia and religiosity/conservatism is as clear as day. Pedocon is as much of a theory as the theory of gravity.

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    I see a lot of comments that seem not to have read this relevant part of the article:

    Gombe State, where the arrests took place on Saturday, is also one of the northern states with a Muslim majority where Islamic Sharia law is applied alongside the federal and state judicial systems.

    Under Sharia law, homosexual relations are punishable by death. However, this sentence has never been applied in northern Nigeria. The NSCDC spokesman refused to say whether the suspects arrested on Saturday would be charged under Sharia law or ordinary law.

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        Islam is also Abrahamic.

        Edit: the op comment is edited, so it might have used another word. Sorry if that’s the case

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          Yeah dude didn’t like being completely wrong, so he edited out Evangelical with Abrahamic to be just kind of wrong in detail if not spirit.

          Calling Islam the tool of oppressors is a bit… Suspect, given the guy clearly wanted an anti-colonialist talking point, but it’s not like any given Abrahamic religion isn’t practically tailor made for oppressive governments in general.

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        I don’t think you know the region. The Sahel is primarily Muslim, the coastal regions were infiltrated by European Bible thumpers in the 19th century. These missionaries pushed their religious delusions onto the populace while capitalists (cut deals that they often reneged on) to rob the environment dry.

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    Does it bother anyone else that the camera isn’t centered between the yellow and green or is it just me?