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Israel is about 47% Jewish as of a recent poll, and that is about 41% of the global Jewish population. I have seen polling saying that roughly 50% of Israel supports the genocide.
So here we have roughly 20% (plus everyone outside of Israel who supports this insanity) of a major world religion who are gleefully in support of genocide. I would imagine the percentage who support the settlements expansions and all the violence around that is much higher.
My hatred of religion has swelled recently. It truly makes me believe you are a defective human being and that none of your other thoughts have any merit. I'm wholly uninterested in hearing swill from the mouths of people so hypocritical to their very core.
Edit: my brain did a stupid and my math was bad. Turns out it's a little worse than I had said. Thank you @AeonFelis@lemmy.world
Zionism is not Judaism. See Antisemitism, Weaponized.
you dont get the point. 90% Jews support the existence of israel, thats equivalent to 90% muslims supporting ISIS, now tell me what wouldve been west's response had 90% muslims supported ISIS? they wrecked havoc despite not even 1% muslims supporting that thing.
Jewish community has something very wrong going on with them and this has resulted into increase in anti semitism.
blaming religion for pissraels crime is like blaming christianity for the colonisation of americas. It's a tool used, not the root cause.
Why not blame Christians? Are you aware of what the Catholic Spaniards did in the Americas? It was REVOLTING.
Just one example of many
Abrahamic religions deserve all of the blame they get and more
Blame the christians absolutely, but recognize that the primary motor behind colonisation was not religion but accumulation of capital. There was no such drive among armenian christians, egyptian christians etc. Religion is a powerful tool to control the exploited, but not the cause of colonialism. Like the wheels don't power the car but are essential for it's movement. There are also other uses for wheels, but there is only one use for a car motor.
@mathemachristian @HasturInYellow they're supremacists and colonists.
Exactly this!
Their holy book literally commands them to kill all these people on this specific land
I'm not aware of any such passage.
Deuteronomy 20:10 When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace. 11 If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject to forced labor and shall work for you. 12 If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to that city. 13 When the Lord your God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it. 14 As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the Lord your God gives you from your enemies. 15 This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.
16 However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. 17 Completely destroy them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the Lord your God has commanded you. 18 Otherwise, they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshiping their gods, and you will sin against the Lord your God.
I am not so sure about this, very strong guns don't kill people vibes.
@HasturInYellow @Rania
More than 80% of Israelis support the genocide. Not 50%.
Explain the math please. I understand that 47% times 41% is roughly 19% - but why did you multiply these numbers?
As an agnostic/likely atheist, there's a difference between religion and extremism. People can be religious without wanting to murder those who don't believe the same things as they do, just like an atheist could still be a political extremist.
@HasturInYellow
This picture illustrates the difference before and after the war. I'm not talking about religion; I'm talking about the lack of mercy, the crimes we're witnessing in this war, and the widespread destruction in Gaza. I'm not talking about religion here.
What war? I saw an extermination with sparse resistance fighting. There were not two similarly matched forces. This was tanks running over children.
@HasturInYellow
Feeling hatred toward a religion or people as a whole can become corrosive, both mentally and socially. Focusing on systems of power, policies, and actions, rather than entire populations or beliefs, keeps your outrage precise and effective in advocating for change.
Religion is a system of power, and inherently corrupt, injust and repugnant one. Religion has to go if humanity is to go forward. Nothing lasting can be build on sand.
My outrage is precise. It's precisely targeted at toxic power structures that entrench evil humans in positions that allow them to destroy the lives of uncountable numbers of people.
It's not my fault that that so accurately describes religions.