• gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    That position requires a willful ignorance of the difference between a religious symbol and a religious practice.

    Do you really think it’s a coincidence that the law carves out a specific prohibition on religious practices that doesn’t affect Christians, the dominant religious group? Your flag has a cross on it.

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            9 months ago

            I see.

            Well thanks for confirming some things I have always suspected about Christianity in general and European Christianity in particular.

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              9 months ago

              “We can’t allow distinctive religious or cultural symbols representing the state!”

              “What about that one right there?”

              “Well, obviously that one is allowed. It’s a part of who we are!”

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                9 months ago

                Emphasis on “we”

                Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.