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Arizona clergy who learn of child abuse in confessions aren’t required to report it, court rules
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There are plenty of Christians with that kinder interpretation though. You think Ms. Rachel is advocating for child abuse because she's Christian?
The "/r/atheist" position is to tell those that are religious what they believe. It's like telling someone what their music taste is. If a Christian is using their religion to justify their bigotry or abusive behavior; you can call that out. But religion isn't a strict adherence to a religious text. It's significantly more about community and unique to every person.
Edit: I'm not a Christian or religious. I just believe people when they tell me what they believe. I don't try to tell them they believe something else.
I'm quickly starting to take the ACAB approach to religions. If they're not actively trying to weed out their own rotten apples, they're part of the problem. Locally if they're everyday people, but at a much wider scale if they have a platform.
The the equivalent of including anyone that's ever called 911 in ACAB.
Not at all, people calling 911 aren't other police officers.
It's an analogy mate. "Them not being police officers" is a difference not important to the core of the analogy.
You're looking at something like "a pen is to write as a knife is cut" and saying "a knife can write by carving".
But it would be dumb to generalize all "911 callers" as ACAB. It would be correct to criticize the "911 callers" that use the institutions of white supremacy to harass and abuse black people. That's the point. There is a line between "Christian church attendees" and "the church" itself. That line is can be crossed by attendees. But they are not the church themselves.
Same goes for "911 callers". All pay taxes and some benefit and exploit the the structures of white supremacy.
I'm all for "all Catholic priest are bastards" as their relationship with the church cannot exist without knowledge of its crimes and the institutional backing of those crimes. They uphold the structures directly.
But to say that "all Catholics are bastards" would be removing the material reasons for the ACPAB and instead placing the claim within the framing of Idealism
All theists are bastards for selfishly repeating baseless, deadly claims as facts.
Let's grow up, please, magic isn't real.