Don't even have sex

Unless you and your partner(s) want to, in which case: do have sex!

Absolutely fucking not

Oh I didn't realize you were a designated pro-sex star trek blog that's my bad. Sorry.

pro tip you can just grab a bunch of random parts from dumpsters and hardware stores and computer stores and just attach them together haphazardly and then put it in your suitcase and take it to the airport and get arrested pretty much 100% of the time

Time to get spoopy

no i am not immune to early 2000s pop-punk music that fucks a little harder than everyone likes to admit

you cannot claim to support jews and think that every israeli should die btw

Also: there are Black and Brown Ashkenazim! There are Mizrahim and Sephardim who look “white”! Traditions of Jewish ethnic and tribal affiliation and inheritance do not map neatly onto the blood-quantum-influenced cultural frameworks that Americans and other western cultures apply to concepts of race and ethnicity!

@thebibliosphere

As an Atheist, there is a place for Atheists calling out Religious Harm, especially if members of that Religion fail to, but it actually has to be harm. A person believing in some god and/or choosing to abide by some rule system you don't understand isn't harm. The best way I've found to look at religious harm personally is control. Does the religion force their views onto other groups, and/or force their own members to stay. When we are talking about freedom, people should have the freedom to believe in whatever they want, and they should have the freedom to consent to any system of rules they want (even religious ones), however they should also have the freedom to decide not to, and when they decide to leave they should be able to live completely free from those rules.

I did specify Actual Harm did I not? I'm not one to support speculating on harm, but if there's people who are trying to speak out and their community isn't listening, there's absolutely a place for those outside to say something about what's going on. (Heck I even said cultural rules you don't understand doesn't constitute harm so long as nobody is being forced into following them). I'm sorry if I didn't make that clear enough.

You seem to be mostly in agreement with each other, as far as I can tell. I could be wrong.

Maybe. I deeply distrust gentile atheist interest in criticizing Judaism.

Yeah, antitheists like to make religion out to be something uniquely mind-numbing, but there’s nothing religion does that non-“religious” ideologies don’t do just as effectively.

I also think it's incredibly telling that in general, very few atheists who talk up a generalized concept of "religious harm" actively acknowledge the fact that most cults / high-control groups today are not even religious in nature. The US in particular is drowning in extremely culty MLMs and non-religious wellness gurus, and many of these groups take even the completely non-religious elements their playbook directly and explicitly from religious movements such as Evangelical Christianity, and especially Mormonism. If there's a category of "Religious Harm" that includes missions and tithes but doesn't include LuLaRoe, then why the hell doesn't it? And conversely, if "Religious Harm" does encompass both actual religious doctrine and also a secular legging-based ponzi scheme, then in what sense is it useful to categorize the harm as "religious"? I think a lot of this goes all the way back to the (incredibly Christian) idea that religion and culture are separable – that a religion and culture that share the same fundamental fabric are nonetheless two entirely individual entities, with entirely individual harms. It's a very eurocentric way to see the world, and what's more, it's factually wrong.