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| Jackarunda #1047591 4 months ago |
"Discriminate" is not a transitive verb, OP. |
| Imdumb #1047594 4 months ago |
What the fuck...
Why the fuck should he be discriminated against? |
| Anonymous #1047596 4 months ago |
You mean by bronies or non-bronies? |
| Anonymous #1047598 4 months ago |
@Imdumb Not should, would. |
| Abou #1047602 4 months ago |
I am very loved and tolerated. :) |
| Anonymous #1047603 4 months ago |
a very good question indeed |
| Anonymous #1047605 4 months ago |
OP is a Dumbass |
| Fridge_Logic #1047615 4 months ago |
OP is a bigoted dumbass. |
| Anonymous #1047616 4 months ago |
Well, is he or she Sunni or Shia? Or Sufi? Probably not a Kharijite. It depends. |
| KRODERSERK #1047617 4 months ago |
What does this has to do with anything? |
| Anonymous #1047619 4 months ago |
why am I a bigot? I just want to know if you are willing to accept everyone to become a brony except for Justin Bieber! |
| Anonymous #1047621 4 months ago |
The question is invalid. Ponies are idolatry. Any Muslim who became a brony would no longer be a Muslim, by definition. |
| Imdumb #1047624 4 months ago |
@ 619
OH so now you're discriminating against Justin Bieber? The KKK called, they wanted me to tell you to tone it down a bit. |
| MrFox #1047625 4 months ago |
This community isn't really different from any other community; we have idiots and bigots of all types here, just the same as everyone else. |
| Abou #1047630 4 months ago |
#621, Then I shall repent to Celest-I mean Allah for my sins. |
| Anonymous #1047634 4 months ago |
People believe all kinds of nonsensical bullshit. That shouldn't stop you from liking ponies.
Long as you don't bitch about r34 and act like a bitch you're cool with me. |
| Anonymous #1047661 4 months ago |
He/she will be discriminated by an asshole brony just as how he/she will be discriminated by a non-brony asshole. In short, just stay away from the assholes. |
| Anonymous #1047665 4 months ago |
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| WingbeatPony #1047673 4 months ago |
Your religion, race, and gender aren't that big of a deal unless you make them a big deal. If someone's giving you a hard time about that stuff, then it's a problem with that individual, not with bronies as a whole. If it's a whole bunch of people, nine times out of ten it's because of the way you said something, not what you said.
It's hard to face down stereotypes if you think people might force one upon you, but they're only trying to make a judgement based on limited information. Be friendly, and people will make friends with you. Be defensive, and people will wonder what you have to defend yourself about. Make sense? |
| Mattatatta #1047690 4 months ago |
A brony is a brony, end of. |
| Anonymous #1048089 4 months ago |
@619 Just for that comment I hope Justin Bieber, the cast of Twilight, Rebecca Black, and other mainstream pop icons are bronies too. |
| AcuteAngle #1048111 4 months ago |
Well, looks like Abou isn't feeling discriminated against, and I've seen a brony on dA with a signature proclaiming that he's a Muslim.
@Anon8089: Oh, I would so love for that to happen, too. |
| Zincy #1048122 4 months ago |
This popped up again? Damn, you'd be hard pressed to find someone who dislikes religion as much as me but it shouldn't affect someones Bronyness. A brony can be/like/believe what ever they damn well please. |
| Xuncu #1048153 4 months ago |
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| RealityCheck #1048406 4 months ago |
More than likely he'd be stoned to death by his community leaders. |
| Saufsoldat #1048675 4 months ago |
Islam preaches hatred and intolerance, so I doubt muslims would really be into MLP. |
| Anonymous #1049011 4 months ago |
^
DUDE Thats kinda hurt full. Im a muslim and I like MLP. |
| Abou #1049027 4 months ago |
Just ignore Saufy. Every fandom has its fair share of shit-stirrers. |
| Saufsoldat #1049057 4 months ago |
@011: Well, I'm sorry that your religion is so hateful, but the Qu'ran says not to be friends with non-muslims. That's pretty much the epitome of intolerance and goes against everything this show stands for. |
| Kittensradio #1049161 4 months ago |
They bury women in the ground up to their shoulders and throw rocks at them until they die and hate anybody that doesn't prostrate to Islam. |
| Anonymous #1049251 4 months ago |
im a muslim brony and im like "wut" [even tho that I just went 2 a dictionary] ._. |
| Anonymous #1049273 4 months ago |
as long as he doesn't go forcing his religion on other people it's fine, same thing goes with Christians, Catholics, Scientologists, and the french. |
| Saufsoldat #1049293 4 months ago |
^ True dat. |
| AcuteAngle #1049306 4 months ago |
Being French is a religion?
Also, Saufsoldat and Kittensradio, just as there are a range of Christians from extremist literalist fanatic to borderline-deist progressive, Muslims have a similar range. I'll gladly argue against the hateful zealots of either religion, but I do think it's better to treat the respectful factions with similar respect. |
| Anonymous #1049412 4 months ago |
I think this may have something to do with Muslim!Human!Fluttershy. Maybe. |
| Anonymous #1049428 4 months ago |
All Abrahamic religions have caused untold evil but why not add ponies? |
| Saufsoldat #1049803 4 months ago |
@306: I can respect a moderate muslim, if he's a nice guy, but that doesn't mean I have to respect his shitty religion.
If the only way for you to be moderate and compatible with the 21st century is not taking your supposedly holy book literally, then maybe the religion itself wasn't made for the 21st century and should be treated as the obsolete crap it is. |
| Latias4Ever #1050349 4 months ago |
They'd be discriminated, obviously, knowing how this community now hates and ostracizes everything they don't approve. I'm aiming this comment to YOU, New Bronies. |
| Xuncu #1050496 4 months ago |
N'most of you know my stance already, though I tend to focus on Christianity/Catholicism, me being a Westerner and all (thusly, I see it's I find it disturbing to how little someone of any religion actually knows about what their 'holy books' actually say; having read more than most people of many of those books, I can summarize it this way: Groups like Al Quaeda and Westboro Baptist Church are actually more accurate to what a Muslim and a Christian are supposed to be, per what their religion actually says, than any moderate. |
| Xuncu #1050536 4 months ago |
And so you know I'm not just baised against just the Abrahamic religions: My problem with bhuddism is that it encourages "non-thought" on a similarly dangerous level- to not question what's wrong, but to roll over an accept it, or to not dig deeper into how it works. Obviously, it's a lot less of a problem since bhuddists don't have a diety with the personality of Khorne from the "Warhammer" game.
I think I could get along with Amish, tho. One of their programs is to let their youth experience the 'normal' lifestyle at least once when they come of age, so they can decide to stay or not; name one other sect of any other religion that offers that clean and easy of a way out, and doesn't ostracise the person for it; I never heard of anysuch anywhere else. And I hear their food is fucking delicious. |
| AcuteAngle #1050710 4 months ago |
@Xuncu:
Matthew 22:36-40 said: 1 John 4:7, 8 said: |
| Xuncu #1050899 4 months ago |
Luke 19:26-27, Jesus speaks:
"For I say unto you, That unto every one which hath shall be given; and from him that hath not, even that he hath shall be taken away from him. But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me." Mattew 10:35 - "For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law." Mattew 12:30 - "He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad." John 12:3-8 - Mary wastes expensive ointment on Jesus' feet, rather than selling the ointment and giving the money to the poor. But Jesus thinks his feet are more important, saying that poor people will always be around, but he and his precious feet won't be. (According to the New Oxford Annotated Bible, 300 denarii would be nearly a year's wage for a laborer.) Matt 5 :17-19 - Jesus says every single last Old Testament Law still counts, from "don't kill" (halfway down in the top ten) to "Kill gays" (Leviticus), or "if an animal hurts a human, it's the animal's fault: kill it" (Exodus 21:28) (even though anybody who's handled animals knows that nearly all animal attacks are the result of humans doing something stupid), and not holding them up at all times means you get less in Heaven. For starters. |
| AcuteAngle #1051482 4 months ago |
@Xuncu
You start your comment by quoting a verse without the necessary context? Really? Luke 19:26-27 is the conclusion of the Parable of the Minas. There have been several different interpretations of that parable, but one fact that stands out to me is that 20-30 years before Jesus spoke this parable, Herod Archelaus went to Rome to be made ruler over Israel, and when he returned he slaughtered those who opposed him, just as the nobleman in the parable did. It makes me wonder if the nobleman (who is the person being quoted in those verses you cited) is really supposed to be viewed as the "good guy". Your other citations need no further context to clarify them, so to avoid turning this thread into a theological debate I won't elaborate further on them (except to note that Mary's anointing of Jesus came just before his crucifixion, and so virtually became a part of his burial rite). However, since Jesus said not once but twice that the greatest commandments were to love God and love your neighbor, I would argue that that should be the foundation of any interpretations. (See especially The Parable of the Good Samaritan; Jews and Samaritans hated each other, so the parable effectively ends with Jesus telling the teacher to sacrifice his time and his money to help his enemies.) And one more verse for good measure, from Jesus' Sermon on the Mount: "Treat others as you want them to treat you. This is what the Law and the Prophets [i.e., the Old Testament] are all about." (Matthew 7:12) |
| Xuncu #1051961 4 months ago |
'several different interpretations of that parable, but the only one I'm going to go with or even mention is the convenient interpertation, without providing any evidence that it's more valid than the others.'
Parable in relation to himself; yes he was supposed to be the 'good guy' because Jesus was talking about himself coming to take Israel back, since the New Testament is just a hackneyed attempt to apply a new mythology to the origional prophecies, which referred not to Jesus as a person, but Israel as a state, all for justification for "whatever it takes" to conquer the bloodsoaked sands of the Middle East. So, do explain: what possible context is it Ok to kill someone for being gay, for for a white man to go to a black woman and say "Get back in the kitchen, nigger!" Because, in both cases, and many other examples of bigotry, hatred, and violence, There's a Passage for That. Because only in the context of the society that the 'holy books', be they Christian or Muslim or whatever, only they present it as "OK". And that society is a theocratic dictatorship; an intellectual wasteland, where anyone who's not a member of the 'annointed' ruling class is between "second class" to just "property". And how exactly is "kill anyone outside our status quo" (which is really what the vast majority of the instructions that Old Testament actually gives are) 'all about' the golden rule? 
"Thou shalt not kill" is mentioned once; orders, guildelines, and assists to kill are throughout. |
| AcuteAngle #1052128 4 months ago |
"'Thou shalt not kill' is mentioned once", but references to loving others and treating them as you'd want to be treated are numerous. Also, as I noted above, Jesus referred to the Golden Rule as one of the two great commandments.
Regarding the Parable of the Minas, I gave evidence that could be used in interpreting it, but it's true I didn't argue over any interpretation being more valid than another. You seem to be arguing your interpretation's more valid because it fits the New Testament's portrayal of Jesus as a stand-in for Israel in order to justify conquering the Middle East no matter the cost, or something along those lines. As for Matthew 5:7-9, where Jesus says he came not to abolish the law but to fulfill it, he actually did so; and once he fulfilled it, the Mosaic law no longer held for Christians. ("But Christ makes the Law no longer necessary for those who become acceptable to God by faith." (Romans 10:4) -- "When the Lord talks about a new agreement, he means that the first one is out of date. And anything that is old and useless will soon disappear." (Hebrews 8:13)) Probably the clearest example of this is Acts 10:9-28, where God instructs Simon Peter "Do not call anything impure that God has made clean", despite what Mosaic law says. So yes, I'd say that murder and slavery go against what Jesus taught, despite the attempts by some to justify them with selective quoting from Scripture. I do like the comic; great art, and a funny jab at the many Christians who wear cultural blinders and can't see anything good outside their own understanding of Christianity. I wish the artist could have included a few more non-Biblical references to the Golden Rule, but I guess the strip's long enough as it is. |
| ProfessorOfHoers #1053495 4 months ago |
All the Abrahamic religions are evil and are the scourge of the entire planet. So, do whatever you want but you won't find respect from me on your religious tenets. |