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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Apr-2026 14:43:35 JST Aral Balkan

   “According to the Bible…”

   No, fuck you. It’s the 21st century. Don’t you fucking quote the deluded ramblings of half-literate goatherds cobbled together through the years as a guide for anything. We’ve had 2,000 years of scientific advancement and we have nuclear weapons and your superstitious magic sky fairy bullshit is going to get us all killed.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Apr-2026 16:01:26 JST Aral Balkan

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     • muddle 🥣

     @muddle I mean, you’re free to quote whatever you like.

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     muddle 🥣 (muddle@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Apr-2026 16:01:27 JST muddle 🥣

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     @aral is it OK if I quote some Buddhist texts every once in a while?

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Apr-2026 16:51:24 JST Aral Balkan

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     • ermo | Rune Morling

     @ermo Oh, no, those other fairy tales are entirely true.

     We had culture and ethics far before organised religions. Superstitious belief and, furthermore systems dreamt up by men to subjugate women and exert control on society are in no way a prerequisite for leading an ethical life. If religious people act ethically, they are doing it despite the toxic venom in those texts, not because of it. And the ones acting according to those texts are busy commit genocide as we speak.

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     ermo | Rune Morling (ermo@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Apr-2026 16:51:25 JST ermo | Rune Morling

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     @aral I take it to mean that you think all similar religious texts should also not be sources of truth then, including the Quran, the Torah etc.?

     This is not an attempt at being facetious btw; I'm genuinely curious about your stance.

     For my part, I get the sense that many of these texts are trying to impart cultural lessons about how to survive as humans in a society. I would imagine that these cultural lessons would tend to evolve over time, as humanity as a whole learns more about the world?

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 30-Apr-2026 00:06:23 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Helidonkey

     @ednun_p You don’t need to believe in a mass-murdering homophobic magic sky fairy to love your neighbour. In fact, it might make it easier to do so.

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     Helidonkey (ednun_p@tweesecake.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Apr-2026 00:06:24 JST Helidonkey

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     @aral Oh I dunno, I think we could all have a bit more love thy neighbour these days.