• ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    I really, really wish the linked article explained more. What are they playing at? This is such a confusing level of control.

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        2 months ago

        Okay but what about the image cast on our retinas through our eyeballs that we use to see?

        Those are imperfect imitations of reality also. What’s their stance on those images…

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        2 months ago

        But apparently written religious works or talking about god’s work is perfect, or that would be banned too.

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        2 months ago

        Why only images of sentient beings though? Did God not create the rest of it too?

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        2 months ago

        I knew someone who believed that it sucks the soul out of you if you get photographed…

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      2 months ago

      God doesn’t want you to mix fabrics or eat certain foods on certain days. “Confusing level of control” is on brand.

      It’s not about making sense though. It’s about making you do what they want so that you know who is in control.

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        2 months ago

        These are not rules of Islam though. On the contrary Islam made many rules of Judaism obsolete, taking away complication in religion. Islam also provided a much clearer theology than Christianity and specifically rejects the “trinity”, “holy people” and other concepts contrary to the oneness of god.

        What the Taliban and other Salafi/Wahabi people do, is quite fringe and it is infuriating that the Brits and later the Americans helped the Saudis to seize power in Arabia and furthered these extremist interpretations.

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            2 months ago

            Ramadan does not have rules about what to eat. The rules are when to eat and quie straightforward. During Ramadan you fast from Dawn till sunset, unless fasting poses a risk to your health (sick, children, elderly, pregnant…)

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              2 months ago

              Oh well that makes complete sense and isn’t about control at all!

              /s

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                2 months ago

                As someone who has fasted for Ramadan the first time this year i can assure you, that nobody was controlling me except myself. While i also felt it to help me physically, it helped me a lot mentally.

                I learned to appreciate the abundance of food and water we have and to have more compassion for people lacking it.

                I also learned to have more control over my body and differentiate between actual needs and mere wants.

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        Not mixing fabrics and certain food practices were originally based on lived experience, like safety guidance, before getting coopted by religion. Kosher practices avoid cross contamination, and mixed fabrics could have something to do with temperature regulation in desert areas where it swings between extreme heat and cold daily. Or it could have existed to discourage lying about prodict quality by those who would sneak in poor quality materials.

        When religion got ahold of these concepts they were absolutely twisted into controlling people.

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      2 months ago

      According to wikipedia, that isn’t even a problem within the Quran itself, but rather a hadith (oral tradition) from some other fellow: “Sahih Bukhari explicitly prohibits the making of images of living beings, challenging painters to “breathe life” into their images and threatening them with punishment on the Day of Judgment.”