in which a wigglytuff tires of 💿 🐴
"religion is only about controlling people and that's all it can ever be about all the time!!!" is such an incredibly tiresome opinion. it only becomes even more tiresome when it becomes espoused by evangelical atheists who think that they have won the game and have ULTIMATE POWER because atheism is the strongest tool to bash people over the head with at all times.
not a coincidence it's usually cishet white dudes pulling this shit
in which a wigglytuff tires of 💿 🐴
the religion of a minority is going to be fundamentally different from the person who society has said they have absolute rule, just as how the religion of a peasant is different from the religion of a king. i am tired of seeing the assumption that all there must be is kings who need to be mocked for believing in their supposed divine right, when a whole lot of us are in the back singing the canticle of the turning
in which a wigglytuff tires of 💿 🐴
i suppose i get so grumpy at this shit because so, so, so often it forms part of a one-two punch to belittle and exclude minorities from spaces that loudly proclaim tolerance. and it's far from just christianity that gets this treatment. "well, of course they're histrionic, and of course we had to stop allowing them to come here... what did you expect from people so silly that they think bacon is a sin?" (islamophobia or antisemitism or both - all very likely.)
in which a wigglytuff tires of 💿 🐴
tldr if you treat your anti-religion sentiment as just another tool to "win" with, you are not actually correcting these abusive power structures
you just pulled out a cricket bat instead of a two-by-four to beat people with
how revolutionary. well done you.
in which a wigglytuff tires of 💿 🐴
ultimately, you must recognize that "L' état, c'est moi!", and "let the king beware, for His justice tears every tyrant from his throne" are two very fucking different philosophies and to treat them as the exact same religion, and all practitioners therein as the exact same, is a pretty fucking big disservice -
even if you DO dismiss the personal experiences and values in play and look at it ONLY as power plays AND NOTHING MORE.