To be an empire doesn’t mean be different

We will see.

I think that you overextimate the american exceptionalism. In the xx century the europe was destroyed in the ww leaving the usa as the only state not touched by the wars. The rest of the world was lagging techlogicaly. Now the situation is different. Usa is a young country and it is not different from any other.

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You too

Asshole is a relative idea.

Ok, i surrender to your superior intelligence and i stop arguing.

Be offended should be your problem. Btw in islam , the atheism it is considered one of the worst sin. If you are atheist and your company don’t want to offend muslims , you should be fired based on your reasoning. You are advocating about discrimination, so you have no problem if it is used against you. Your ideas, your consequences.

Make a joke with consequences ( stemming from been fired to stoned, it depends from culture ) is never a problem. You are tolerant like a taliban, only less violent. ( and i respect talibans ). The funny thing is that you think that people thinking different from you is dumb, so strange from a culture based on antiracism.

Not everything… as you said, if i work in usa and i make a joke about a taboo topic, i will be fired. I can even make a joke about the coran in afghanistan and i will finish stoned , so… making a joke with consequences is never a problem.

No problem, i have discussed about religion and morale with most of known religion and i understand that some topics are taboo. No problem, every religion/ideology have these.

I have made no jokes and i’m surprised to not been banned. I’m not angry and i doesn’t care at all about your beliefs that i found quite strange. So, from an external point of view, i try to understand the self consciousness of your religion.

Clearly what? Clearly having different opinion is a mental disease? Interesting point.

Bigot, infidel, capitalist, traitor: various nouances of the same phenomenon.

Nothing that is conforming to the ortodoxy.

You ( and other people ) downvote me cause i’m having a different prospective about modern ideologies ( otherwise known as modern religions ). You even doesn’t recognise the religious part of your thought. That’s is interesting from a philosofical point of view.

Btw: the equivalence between religion and modern ideologies it is not my idea, you can find the same concept in a lot of ( more or less ) modern philosofical works.

Edit: in reality if you do not admit that your belief it is not a religion, you cannot have not believers, so your dogma became de facto universal.

In the soviet union the government, in the bresnev era, sent the dissidents in psychiatric facilities. Are you at the same level of dogmatic conformism of the late soviet communism? It is so disturbing to ear different ideas?

Everything is a natural state in a materialistic world. And religion is too much common.

Btw downwotes and dogma are your problem, not my problem. Dogmas stop knowledge and damage the people subject to them. No wonder that american technology have a lesser advantage against other countries.

Religion and gods are two different things. In this case we have a religion without gods. Religion is a natural state of humans regarding dogma and morale.