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Posted by Nilet on Tue Oct 7 00:50:49 2014, in response to Re: It Is Now Yom Kippur, posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Mon Oct 6 23:49:08 2014. It is extremely odd that you would "celebrate" a holiday that is devoted to atoning for your sins and fasting by declaring you have nothing to atone for.On the contrary— it's not odd at all. Religion invents the concept of "sin" to trap people into servitude, keeping them the downtrodden slaves of an imaginary god and the very real tyrants who claim to act in his name. Breaking free of religion means more than just being able to party on Saturdays without having to wait for the sun to set— it means being free to see and learn, to appreciate the universe, and to call out injustice because no one else will. Taking a holiday religion invented as a day to debase yourself in the name of your imaginary owner and using it to celebrate freedom from that tyrant is hardly odd— using the vestiges of an oppressor to celebrate the end of that oppressor is common practice— just ask anyone who has reclaimed a former slur. Furthermore, while your, erm, mental handicap on the subject of religion probably prevents you from seeing the big picture, there's more to it than that. Judaism may be relatively laid back on the whole notion of "sin" but Christianity abuses the concept with a vengeance— in Christianity, sin is a chain used to control people. God demands the impossible, your failure to deliver it is a "sin" and for this "sin" you must live your life in constant guilt, debasing yourself before the masters and kings and tyrants and popes who claim that God demands it. While I have never been Christian myself, I live in a country heavily influenced by Christianity and its toxic notion of sin, giving me a much greater reason to celebrate my freedom from the guilt trap of religion. A former Christian would probably celebrate Christian atonement holidays in this fashion, and I'd love to see an "It Is Now Lent" post from an ex-Christian. However, I'm Jewish and I've pretty much always been an atheist— the former means Yom Kippur is "my" cultural holiday and the latter means all religions seem pretty much interchangeable anyway so there's no reason not to swap one for another. As such, I use Yom Kippur to celebrate my freedom from the trap of religion in general and as a stand-in for Lent to celebrate my freedom from the trap of Christianity that most of my country is stuck in. If you can't understand why that pisses people off, you have a lot to learn. I understand exactly why it pisses people off and have stated as much explicitly. Unfortunately, you have a lot to learn if you want to understand it— thus far, you couldn't even read that post before your religion considered it a threat and shut down your mind to prevent you from understanding it. Unaware that this had even happened, you simply assumed that if you didn't believe what I said, it must have been because you were offended and so you commenced another tantrum to shriek about how offensive it was that I don't do everything you do exactly the way you think it should be done. |
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