#zealotry

[odinsblog]

the pro-israel islamophobes who believe israel is justified no matter what are the same as antisemitic people who believe hamas is justified no matter what are the same as the tankies who believe russia is justified no matter what are the same as republicans who believe trump is justified no matter what are the same liberals who believe biden is justified no matter what are the same as gun nuts who believe unrestricted guns are justified no matter what are the same as are the same as are the same as any other group of sycophantic zealots. everyone is wrong sometimes. wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it. no person or group is beyond critique. you have to be willing to tell your group when they have crossed the line and when they are wrong, otherwise you’re just another mindless follower; a cultist.

#politics #republicans #sycophants #tankies #gun nuts #zealotry #islamophobia #antisemitism #palestine #gaza #rafah #israel #russia #ukraine #fanaticism

[worldbuildingwanderlust]

A blade can't shine

Dripping blood

Nor can faith abide

Intentions impure

Walking

Talking

Heresy

Yet the name of your God

Endures

Is It created in your image?

Or you in Its?

Regardless

If your actions speak for It

Surely It's more Devil

Than Divine

#my writing #poetry #poem #religion #Christianity #bible #hypocrisy #church #theology #zealotry #creative writing #spilled ink #poets on tumblr #writers on tumblr #writers and poets #quick write

[360degreesasthecrowflies]

Its kind of wild (though I suppose makes some kind of sense) that a lot of the residual Harry Potter fandom post-JKRgate seems to be made up of people who are militaristic, gleefully violence endorsing, and in denial.

There was a fascinating thread on reddit's r/harrypotter today that really emphasised this.

Somebody had quoted the scene where Harry uses Crucio, the torture curse that causes the victim unbearable pain and can cause brain damage due to the severity... as something not that they thought was morally questionable or a talking point, but as a heroic winning moment that they were upset wasn't adapted into the movies, and they hoped the tv show would include!

Up and down the thread around 2000 people agreed!

Those few people that pointed out that Harry's use of torture being okayed because he believed it was for the good of society retroactively also legitimised its use by any of their enemies who believed the same were pilloried by the group. Ah, you see, but Harry is the hero. Its fine for him to use literal torture as long as its for the greater good. So what if he causes so much pain his victim passes out? It's the greater good, man!

It kind of struck me that by retaining - and encouraging - this side of fandom, its making HP quite a good recruiting ground for general zealotry and extremism. If X is fine when Harry does it for the greater good, then is it also fine when Rowling does it? Or when the political candidate that Rowling endorses does it?

These people are being carefully shielded from the fact that just because a story has a first person perspective and a character is called a hero by others around him, that does not mean that everything they unilaterally do is objectively right. If you fight fire with the fire in the pursuit of your defeat of fire as a concept, haven't you become... exactly what you seek to extinguish?

#anti jkr #harry potter fandom #fan dumb #reddit #hp meta #zealotry #jk rolling #worrying #morality in harry potter #crucio #text post

[imkeepinit]

From the episode "The Drumhead," which aired on April 29, 1991

#quote #Jean Luc Picard #Patrick Stewart #Star Trek: The Next Generation #zealotry #dogmatism

[agentfascinateur]

For a different view of the current dynamic in Gaza:

The fraud being committed, according to an expert ancient linguist Billy Carson.

#palestine #palestinians #social commentary #billy carson #religion #religious fanaticism #israeli apartheid #israeli occupation #gaza #the promised land #war crimes #justice #genocide #history #scripture #holy texts #ancient sumeria #zealotry #new age #annunaki #free palestine #free gaza #emerald tablet #enough is enough #world domination #god

[corvianbard]

#5840

Wrath, wrath upon priestly lords That turned piety into zealotry. Rage on their lies that are swords That thirst for desolation and misery.

#my poem #poem #poetry #lord #sword #piety #zealotry #misery #desolation #lie #rage #wrath #5840

[theomnicode]

Tell it to the humans who need to hear it

Cult of bald (thanks @gofancyninjaworld ) gets more sinister when you think about the japanese translation to this panel. (thanks @elenasparks1305 for the translation)

This moment when Genos thought he needed to tell this story to the people who needed to know? The Japanese is admittedly a bit ambiguous. It is written 人間, which directly translates to human. However, this word is used pretty regularly in lots of different meaning (singular or plural both) depending on the context. Which led me to believe that, Genos is not trying to tell this to “the people” who needed to hear.

It gets more sinister vibes if you read it as "humans" and not as people.

That Genos is actually compelled by divine power, as I've suspected the core holds, to spread the message of Saitama's greatness to the humans who need to hear this.

Humans, not people. Humans.

(I'm not sure if Genos has ever referred to his fellow people with that term, but idk, it would not make the point less relevant.)

Then he did just that in the last chapter. Telling all the humans who need to know about Saitama's greatness, this secret intel and suddenly we're on track with the story.

Like this sudden intervention shoved the plot along where it "should be going" according to wc.

(something something saitama's monkey paw about absurdly strong monster controlling enemy organizations every move from behind the scenes)

And if you doubt his motives as just someone blabbing who happens to be very infatuated, you only need to look into his eyes and see that Murata-sensei intentionally hides his pupils.

Eyes are a window to the soul, something Murata points out in his "How to draw manga"-manga. He himself draws eyes that convey emotion and characters on a spiritual level.

Look into the eyes of any character in OPM and they will convey you a thousand words of their true character.

Right now, Genos' true character is very much hidden and he's has dubious motives at best.

Saitama really landed Genos in some deep water when he brought that core back.

The fact that there is no actual religion being promulgated, that there is no cynical leader exploiting the good faith of his followers

Wouldn't be so sure about that anymore. Genos would make a fine follower ripe for the exploiting wouldn't ya think? Haha...

Time is ripe indeed.

#opm #one punch man #opm meta #genos #divine power #opm spoilers #zealotry #cult

[thecapitolradar]

This wasn't a mistake. It was an unholy crusade, driven by rank stupidity.

No oops for you, Alabama; only shame and disgrace.

#book banning #alabama #stupidity #zealotry

[mywitchcultblr]

Thanks to dragon age and assassin creed, each time I saw the word 'templar' it boiled my blood to 100° Celcius. I don't care of in some universe they are the 'good guy' like your usual paladin of whatever... I want them dead...

Religion + army is ALWAYS a bad idea

#dragon age #assasins creed #ew #anger #vent #anti templar #religious fanaticism #zealotry

[hourback]

Message to zealots of Zion and American exceptionalism

https://hourback.notion.site/I-m-sure-I-m-not-the-first-person-to-understand-that-probably-the-least-useful-metric-of-the-impact–dc366ef06c3f48d2887efb9d0c998d06

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#assassination #CIA #down with Zionism #fanaticism #ICC #ICJ #ignorance #Israel #JFK #Judaism #Nazism #religion #superstition #true believers #United Nations #war crimes #world war II #zealotry

[world-v-you-blog]

Zealotry

We all have our blind spots. Perhaps there is no one so blind as a zealot, a fanatic. And fanatics are often the most difficult and even dangerous kind of people to deal with. They can be willing and convinced to commit heinous acts to forward the “Cause” and silence “the Enemy”—even permanently. I have been a zealot, and can still be one. I confess that zealotry has gotten me into hot water…

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#fanaticism #ideology #Pascal #Progressivism #Religion #Socrates #Truth #Zealotry

[alien-bear]

What are u talking about with prophets sent to places… by who? What?

If you mean one or more gods… how’s are you gonna believe in that and not believe in gender identity. Or at least admit it could be true. One of the main ways we can reject gender identity is knowing there is no soul or magic/mystic dimension where shit like gendered souls that could be in the “wrong bodies” could happen. If to you gods or a soul is considered real, gender identity theory must be considered plausible too. There is no actual support beyond “I feel it” and “i said so” and “look at this book, it says so too. no evidence tho” for either.

Hello again, if you’re the same anon as the last one, and hello for the first time if you write for the first time :)

So for your first question: it is a belief in lots of religions, not only monotheistic, that prophets (or spirits, in other belief systems) are sent to those places where they are most needed.

Since in a conversation before, Saudi Arabia was talked about, I found it interesting to mention that aspect. Islam originated in Saudi Arabia, a place that back then somehow managed to be even worse than today.

Now you mentioned this and brought up gender ideology and gender identity. Bringing up gender identity in this context is great because it also operates in faith, on ideology, and just like all religions, it has its extremists and its zealots. We’ve all seen rape and death threats sent to women. We also see that in places where it’s the mainstream religion, just like with all the other religions, its followers are emboldened to become aggressive.

The difference between gender ideology and monotheistic religions is that monotheistic religions believe that there is a benevolent entity that created the universe - a God. And that God sent prophets to this Earth to help people become, basically, in tune with the rest of the creation by being obedient to their Creator. In order to do that, according to monotheistic beliefs, God chose some people, special people, to be His prophets and basically introduce the other people to the best ways to be good in the eyes of God.

Gender ideology doesn’t obey to God, but it does obey to dogma. The dogmatic beliefs in religion get justified by the idea that “it would please God” (the implications of people taking it up to themselves to decide on behalf of others is a whole other clickushficush). The dogmatic beliefs in gender ideology get justified by the idea that it would please trans people. Both groups reinforce beliefs by fear tactics - in monotheistic religions, the unbelievers are threatened with eternal hellfire; in gender ideology, the (generally female) unbelievers are threatened with rape and death. Both insist that following the way is the only salvation and have their believers spread the word, the message, and then the compulsion (which is technically forbidden in monotheistic religions by the very texts their followers claim to live by, but that too is another clickusfikush) too.

As for your other implications, about how I’m literally the same as Hitler gender havers if I don’t agree with you in every point, I’ll have to disappoint you: I’m not interested in obeying any group of people nor bending down to beliefs of a group. I’m not interested in shaping my beliefs or my personality according to what a given group considers acceptable. I have the right to agree with certain points of some groups and disagree with others. And so does everyone else.

Since you mentioned gender ideology, that’s one of the things that they always do and that irritates the life out of me. Basically, I’d you’re not with them and following their brand of misogyny, you’re the worst, you’re simultaneously literally Stalin and literally Hitler committing a literal genocide. If you don’t agree with their sexist view of the gender, then you must agree with the other sexist views, such as those of the far right, because they’re unable to conceive that it’s possible to have a third point of view, one that doesn’t need to be dependent of sexist stereotypes at all.

Likewise here. The argument “if you understand/research/respect/believe that there’s a God or that some people are believers or that people have souls THEN SOMEHOW YOU MUST ALSO BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE GENDERED SOULS THAT CAN BE IN THE WRONG BODIES” and… no. You don’t “must believe this too”. There’s no compulsion here. Once again, we aren’t in a cult where we must obey to a certain set of beliefs, otherwise we’re “literally like [whatever the other side is] in that whole other subject”.

Also, that would be factually incorrect. The religious idea of the soul is completely detached from the body. It’s genderless in the sense that the idea of a “gendered soul” would be a category fallacy, as in, souls don’t have genders. Bodies do. Therefore, according to monotheistic religions, a soul cannot be in the “wrong” body because the soul just is. The body is seen as the envelope of the soul. And the physical characteristics of the envelope define whether the person is a male or a female, a man or a woman. Not the soul. Because the soul has no gender.

It’s light years from gender ideology.

The fact that you don’t believe in either doesn’t mean that they’re the same. That’s a very, very dangerous derivative of any mindset. Immediately putting everything that you don’t like and that you disagree in the same box, on the same level, in the same category, and assume that if someone agrees with you on one thing, they must agree on all of them. That’s really unhealthy, and will make you suffer on the wrong run.

#gender ideology #gender #religion #religions #religious intolerance #dogma #zealotry #cult mentality #trans cult #transgender #islam #christianity #judaism #monotheistic religion #long post #answered anon #answered ask #answered #anonymous asks #my asks #soul #gender soul #gender nonsense #gender atheist #gender critical #religion critical #religious tolerance

[oooocleo]

i drew some cute faces today...! heavily cropped bc of the.... nipples

#sketches #my art #mania! zealotry!

[sdrewr]

OUTRAGEOUS SUPREME COURT DECISION REVERSING ROE v WADE

Now is the moment for those interested in this matter to read or re-read what was posted earlier on this page; see below for the writings of Sue Halpern and of Anna Grzymala-Busse.

Justice Samuel Alito misspoke when he claimed that a right to abortion was never a part of America's history.

#roe v wade #abortion #majority opinion #zealotry #women's rights #separation of church and state

[agentfascinateur]

Gaza infant deaths:

The fallacy of Israeli "democratic allies" and the glaring hypocrisy of US human rights...

#palestine #palestinians #free palestine #free gaza #gaza genocide #israeli apartheid #israeli occupation #war crimes #idf terrorists #iof terrorism #us weapons #netanyahu the madman #genocide #annihilation #annexation #right wing extremism #fascism #zealotry #zionism #cult #icj #icc #justice #the hague #childrens holocaust #children #baby killer israel #famine #starvation #ramadan

[corvianbard]

#5819

Dear tyranny, You brought only agony In the name of piety When it is vanity. You only oversee That there is no brilliancy In your core but zealotry And bigotry.

#my poem #poem #poetry #name #core #agony #tyranny #piety #vanity #brilliancy #zealotry #bigotry #5819