• SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    It ain’t religion doing this, pal.

    It’s the insane amounts of wealth and power over the world economy that makes these assholes go full Harkonnen.

    Something to think about when you’re filling up your gas tank.

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      4 months ago

      It helps when the primary law and religious text of your religion MANDATES execution as a punishment for whichever infraction some sixth century cunt thought you deserved death for.

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      4 months ago

      wealth and power

      Before industrialization and the infrastructure to use oil, religion was the main source of wealth and power. These assholes simply changed work modes.

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        4 months ago

        Yeah that’s true of every place on earth. It’s just a coincidence that people in power in oil rich parts of the world are assholes? Putin, Mister Bonesaw, Maduro in Venezuela, whoever runs things in Iran these days… all a bunch of assholes. All in places where religion was dominant in the past, but is that really the determiining factor?

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          4 months ago

          Well maybe we can link religious extremism with oil profiteering. It fits in the middle east and in Texas.