Other Abrahamic religions play around with a lot of the same themes of excusing and encouraging ethnic cleansing and other classic biblical virtues-against-humanity such as massacring all living things in an entire city, but their stake in the present distribution of global power is much smaller, and they consequently represent a smaller threat to human life. I am not opposed to subsequent criminalization of Islam, as it is no better, but in the name of curbing the racist element which is highly likely to result from such policy, and also mindfully of the difficulty of phasing out Islam, I do not believe that it is productive to put it together on the chopping block with Christianity in the world we live in now. Judaism isn’t so much of a problem due to its more widely practiced interpretative principle and due to its weaker practical hierarchy compared to Christianity.
Can i still like Jesus? Can i still study Christ as a historical figure?
I view following biblical orders as the defining characteristic of a Christian person. (This view is generally uncontroversial among Christians, who generally do not take seriously those who claim to be Christian without having faith in the Bible’s inerrancy.)
There is a set of terrorist beliefs prescribed by the Bible that the average person who simply likes Jesus Christ as a literary figure probably doesn’t hold. Those people tend to have different socialization and visible attitudes compared to Christians of the definitively violent variety, and aren’t difficult to tell apart. I certainly do not believe those people should be gone after.
What about ancient religious art? Destroy it?
We must preserve the historical account of Christianity being the leading force of anti-intellectualism and collective narcissism of Christian nations, in addition to being an indispensable tool of fascism around the world and a significant contributor to solidification of Nazi rule in its time. Destroying the artistic record of history would not accomplish anything useful, much like how removing swastikas from museums of World War 2 wouldn’t help with doing away with neo-Nazism.
What’s the punishment if i get caught thinking about The Lord, or God forbid, praying!?
Refer to the legislation prohibiting display of Nazi symbols as implemented by many European countries. Countries like Germany have had a rough history with the way they implemented such legislation, with false-positive rulings and enforcement that were at odds with preservation of history and antifascist self-expression, but modern legislation against rehabilitation of Nazism is much better than that, and offers some valuable experience on how to tackle this inherently difficult problem.
In recent years, Debian maintainers have been acting with increasing disrespect toward upstream software maintainers and abusing their reputation of being a “stable distro” to shift blame for their bad decisions onto others.
The most significant example would be the orphaning of
bcachefs-tools, during which Debian maintainers demonstrated outrageous incompetence in the way they package Rust libraries and a lack of willingness to make simple changes to their package manager (a way to have certain packages installed in multiple versions at once if the names of files inside those packages allow that to happen without conflicts) to accommodate for software whose library dependencies are at odds with those of other Debian packages. This incited an influx of harassment and bigotry towards thebcachefs-toolsmaintainers and the Rust community at large.Another example that comes to mind is the KeePassXC fiasco, in which the build configuration for KeePassXC in its Debian package was modified to remove certain features, without any sort of prior communication or discussion with the KeePassXC team itself. One of the features removed by Debianers was the KeePassXC browser extension integration that helps users avoid exposing passwords to the clipboard when using the password manager, protecting them against clipboard grabbers. Because the KeePassXC team was not notified in advance, the settings menu of the password manager had no provisions for telling the user that specific features were disabled at compile time (the assumption being that only advanced users manually compiling KeePassXC would modify those settings), leading to their bug tracker being swarmed by frustrated and confused users of the Debian unstable branch who suddenly had the browser extension integration removed from their version of KeePassXC without a trace. This miscommunication put pressure on the KeePassXC team and misrepresented their software in the eyes of users, as Debian maintainers did not bother coordinating their changes with anyone. To add insult to injury, the Debianers then proceeded to scold the KeePassXC team on their issue tracker for supposedly having bad defaults, further escalating the purposeful breakage event into what came to most resemble bullying of upstream maintainers by Debian packagers.