Let's remember that this is not an isolated incident, it's a repeated pattern of the IDF intentionally targeting and killing civilians and aid workers:
- Flour massacre
- World Central Kitchen drone strike
- Gaza aid distribution massacres
- Rafah paramedics massacre
And many others. Each one of these alone is a war crime. But unfortunately the west is happy to look the other way. Had it been the other way around, we'd never hear the end of it.
It was horrific waking up every day there for a while and reading about how the IDF had, yet again, waited for starving Palestinians to line up at places they speculated would have humanitarian aid and opened fire on the whole crowd.
The idea that people think this is some kind of holy war is something beyond nauseating.
I think we as a people have to keep working to weaken and replace religious identity with belief in a private god. Belief in a divine power must not leave one's home, and must not extend into the public sphere where it can lead to divisions. This is where polytheistic religions win because they allow for a private god while being entirely compatible with someone else's private god. If I can look at a person's clothing or hairstyle and guess their religion, it means the tenet of privacy is violated, and division is sowed.
Fwiw, ancient Egyptian religion in the Levant region was polytheistic. So many ancient religions were polytheistic, thereby more flexible, decentralized, and pluralistic. Monotheism in contrast is largely inflexible and risks breeding conflict in the name of religion.
As for the adherents of Yahweh, i.e. now called Judaism, they have been using violence to displace other forms of the polytheistic Canaanite religion for three thousand years. What is happening now is just more of the same. Even two thousand years ago, the Jews pressured the Romans to crucify Christ. The point is that there is zero tolerance among monotheists for innate religious diversity.
An analogy for monotheism is everyone worshipping the dollar, whereas polytheism is whereby people have more choice, even multiple choices.
Believe it or not, jews and christians were practicing their religion freely and were protected during the Islamic golden age. What we're seeing today is extremists (in any religion) rising to position of power (or taking up arms), thus skewing the view that this is how all followers of that religion believe. It's much more nuanced than that. Most people are peaceful and happy to coexist as long as they're respected and their rights are not violated. Take that away and extremisim will rise.
Let's remember that this is not an isolated incident, it's a repeated pattern of the IDF intentionally targeting and killing civilians and aid workers:
- Flour massacre
- World Central Kitchen drone strike
- Gaza aid distribution massacres
- Rafah paramedics massacre
And many others. Each one of these alone is a war crime. But unfortunately the west is happy to look the other way. Had it been the other way around, we'd never hear the end of it.
It was horrific waking up every day there for a while and reading about how the IDF had, yet again, waited for starving Palestinians to line up at places they speculated would have humanitarian aid and opened fire on the whole crowd.
The idea that people think this is some kind of holy war is something beyond nauseating.
I think we as a people have to keep working to weaken and replace religious identity with belief in a private god. Belief in a divine power must not leave one's home, and must not extend into the public sphere where it can lead to divisions. This is where polytheistic religions win because they allow for a private god while being entirely compatible with someone else's private god. If I can look at a person's clothing or hairstyle and guess their religion, it means the tenet of privacy is violated, and division is sowed.
Fwiw, ancient Egyptian religion in the Levant region was polytheistic. So many ancient religions were polytheistic, thereby more flexible, decentralized, and pluralistic. Monotheism in contrast is largely inflexible and risks breeding conflict in the name of religion.
As for the adherents of Yahweh, i.e. now called Judaism, they have been using violence to displace other forms of the polytheistic Canaanite religion for three thousand years. What is happening now is just more of the same. Even two thousand years ago, the Jews pressured the Romans to crucify Christ. The point is that there is zero tolerance among monotheists for innate religious diversity.
An analogy for monotheism is everyone worshipping the dollar, whereas polytheism is whereby people have more choice, even multiple choices.
Believe it or not, jews and christians were practicing their religion freely and were protected during the Islamic golden age. What we're seeing today is extremists (in any religion) rising to position of power (or taking up arms), thus skewing the view that this is how all followers of that religion believe. It's much more nuanced than that. Most people are peaceful and happy to coexist as long as they're respected and their rights are not violated. Take that away and extremisim will rise.
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