Emo Philips:
“Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, “Don’t do it!” He said, “But nobody loves me.” I said, “God loves you. Do you believe in God?” He said, “Yes.” I said, “Are you a Christian or a Jew?” He said, “A Christian.” I said, “Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?” He said, “Protestant.” I said, “Me, too! What denomination?” He said, “Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?” He said, “Northern Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?” He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?” He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879 or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?” He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912.” I said, “Die, heretic!” And I pushed him off the bridge.”
did it take him like half an hour to deliver that
Only if he tells it right!
Yes, but god, what a delivery!
About 1:20, and the text above even missed the fundamentalist/reformer step: https://youtu.be/ANNX_XiuA78
That has a name: narcissism of small differences.
Also relevant: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup/
Tell that to my parents. Dad: Protestant Mom: Catholic
But I’m the black sheep for being an Atheist
Eh, I think protestantism and catholicism are actually pretty different. Even the local catholic churches can differ quite a lot between countries - e.g. Germany’s catholic churches are generally a lot more progressive than those in Africa. And European lutheranism might as well be on a different planet compared to US evangelicalism.
And to many people the differences between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are negligible.
Sure, it’s a matter of what particular aspects of religion you care about, and Judaism and Islam aren’t monoliths, either.
Reminds me of the Family Guy bit:
“I’m a Seventh Day Adventist! We believe all the same things you do, but the sabbath is Saturday!”
“WHAT?!”
“Hey, weren’t you the Wako guys???”
There are 95 things that I would like to say on the matter. Give or take.
Could you list the number that are alike?
I’m rather inclined to start with the 95.
Van your put them somewhere where most people can read them, like on the door of the church
I think that the ridiculousness (ridiculosity?) of other’s religions reflects the believer’s own religion’s absurdity, made especially worse, in my opinion, if it’s only recognized on a subconscious level.
Like in the movie Fight Club when the narrator says he can’t cry with another faker around.
Sports fans amirite?
Like, two massive fans of the same sport, but from a different city with a different team.
Or even worse, when there’s two major teams in the same city …
Competition for membership and money. People changing from say christianity to islam or to buddhism is less likely, they’re outsiders and foreign, but not direct competitors. Making your version of Christianity more cult-ish by fomenting hatred of the similar competition to prevent people from leaving or losing church benefactors does the same thing.
I think it’s more that people hate people of other beliefs that live near to them. And when politics gets mixed with religion and then there’s some violence, that’s when it becomes a real feud.
I mean would there be so much hatred between Catholics and Protestants in Ireland if the British weren’t Protestant?
I wonder if Buddhist monks from thailand look at Buddhist monks from India like that Futurama Fry squint meme?
They absolutely do.
“better a heathen than a heretic” is a refrain I have heard used without irony
I’m pretty sure they don’t if we define “hate” by things like Terrorism or Religious Discrimination instead of complaints at the BBQ, but sure, your local sect is so annoying.
Catholicism and protestantism have a long history of war and discrimination between them. It’s arguable how much of that was actually about religion, but it certainly makes it easier to motivate the masses. It’s less nowadays because most people in the west don’t take religion seriously anymore, but I’d assume that US evangelicals still have strong opinions on Christians who believe the wrong thing. Not to mention all the Christians outside of the west (i.e. Africa, South America), who actually outnumber westerners.
I know about the 30 years war and whatnot, and it might have been necessary to at least mention the Troubles as a partially religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants that spawned the biggest terrorist attacks in the UK, or perhaps more noteworthy the relationship between Sunni and Shia Muslims and their majority countries…
But be fucking for real. If the West just doesn’t care about religion any more, we wouldn’t have religious discrimination. Do Catholics get more assaulted for their Religion than Muslims in the US? Are South American Catholics absolutely viscous when it comes to Christian Heretics but the same people are tolerant to Vodou? Are there any Evangelical Terror attacks in Kenya I missed?
You are denying reality justifying this.
Compared to South American and Africa, yes, most western countries are very secular societies nowadays and organized christianity has heavily declined, even a lot of places in the USA are rather secular nowadays.
I’d argue that anti-muslim violence in western countries is motivated more by general xenophobia and racism than religion, similar to how German Nazis weren’t motivated by deep religiosity when they genocided Jews.
Sunni and shiite
I mean I can’t say the entire community as a whole but I know sunni and shiite people who are friends with one another
Abrahamic religions basically
Nah it seems to apply in Asia as well. Just look at what the CCP are doing to the Tibetan Monks. And its not even the first time an emperor ordered a sect of Buddhist monks killed off.
The CCP are anti-religion, not Buddhist.
Officially, yes but at least a third of the nation is secretly Buddhist and the CCP even have their own fake Panchen Lama working for the government.
