I don’t know any true Christians who are MAGA or racists or even bigots. But with the commonly used definition that if someone says something is bad they automatically are seen as hating the people doing it many people arguing in communities like that would be called haters or bigots and possibly be banned here on lemmy.world. Even though most true Christians don’t like MAGA and hardline rights they might feel the need to create communities like r/TrueChristian oad r/AskAChristian on exploding-heads.com or similar servers because they might think that their opinions are tolerated there. What do you think?

  • Leraje@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You could answer that your religion teaches that xyz is bad because Jesus said so, or whatever.

    However, the issue is, whilst you are only stating the tenets of your religion, if what your religion states is hateful - thats an issue.

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      1 year ago

      Great answer!

      hateful = considered hateful by the immediate society. The speaker doesn’t have to agree that it’s hateful.

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        1 year ago

        By “society” you mean the majority of people? And when the majority of people thinks something is wrong that gives them the right to cancel out a minority opinion just by calling it “hate”?

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      1 year ago

      But isn’t religion also one of the protected classes? I would only state what i think my religion teaches I would not discriminate or cancel anyone and let other opinions stand. But when someone tries to cancel me for stating what i think my religion teaches wouldn’t they discriminate against me because of my religion?