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Cake day: July 1st, 2026

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  • Maybe this is on me for engaging to the extent I did, then. I definitely had set out to have a conversation about how religious groups should be more welcome on Lemmy.

    I’ll consider what you’re saying about it being a choice that shouldn’t be given the same graces as statuses given through birth. There’s something developing there, but I’m going to have to reflect on that for a while.

    But you should consider how on one part of your argument you’re saying women are being compelled to wear their garb and then concluding that belonging to religious frameworks is strictly a choice. This is walking right past their autonomy in a very selectively invalidating kind of way. Though I’m going to try to just take the merits of what you’re saying and leave the rest.


  • To my knowledge religious status is protected by law from discrimination in the US to the same extent all those others are? Laws are a poor measure of morality but it’s saving the jobs of women who need to wear religious garments in professional settings so it seems moral.

    But looking at that church’s Wikipedia page it looks like they’re one of the only denominations to be institutionally changing to include LGBTQ. Seems a little curmudgeonly to say they’re outside the scope of inclusion, especially given the resounding victories progressivism is having in the united states lately





  • One of my favorite observations about ecology through the lens of intelligent design is statistically if you have to assume God intended the earth to have a main character, everyone’s ignoring the sheer, incomparably wide amount of focus he seemed to have on making different beetles.

    Humans were clearly the side project. Visible stars that you can see? Also a minor detail for his beetle planet. Saurians and fish? Background characters for beetle planet. His chosen people, the Jews and their long history? A subplot in season 20 of Beetle Planet. God is autistic like the guy who invented Pokémon. This planet was made for 400000 species of beetles