• Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Who knows. All these secular nations are the most moral until they do evil stuff then it’s religion’s fault.

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        11 months ago

        America just wanted a base in the middle east to extort and terrorize other countries with and steal their oil. Bush was as religious as Donald Trump.

        Hypocrites abusing religion as a pretense for their misdeeds are described in pretty much every religious book.

        Now defend the CCP and China. Are they religious too?

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          11 months ago

          I’m not arguing that secular people (or, indeed, nations) can’t be evil. While you bring up China, though, it’s a bit of a myth that they’re not religious; approximately 80% of the Chinese population practise cults of gods and ancestors or belong to folk religious movements.

          My point was that it’s a bit odd to pick the US as your example of a secular country when it is at the moment de facto Christian.

          With regards to Bush being ‘as religious as Trump’, that’s just simply not true. He’s a pretty devout Christian, and has put it in a prominent position in all his campaign rhetoric, more than any other president of this generation. If you just Google George W Bush religion you’ll find plenty of news articles from a variety of sources saying that (e.g. this or this).

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            10 months ago

            “God chose him” huh.

            Titus 1:16

            They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good.