Catholicism and protestantism have a long history of war and discrimination between them. It’s arguable how much of that was actually about religion, but it certainly makes it easier to motivate the masses. It’s less nowadays because most people in the west don’t take religion seriously anymore, but I’d assume that US evangelicals still have strong opinions on Christians who believe the wrong thing. Not to mention all the Christians outside of the west (i.e. Africa, South America), who actually outnumber westerners.
I know about the 30 years war and whatnot, and it might have been necessary to at least mention the Troubles as a partially religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants that spawned the biggest terrorist attacks in the UK, or perhaps more noteworthy the relationship between Sunni and Shia Muslims and their majority countries…
But be fucking for real. If the West just doesn’t care about religion any more, we wouldn’t have religious discrimination. Do Catholics get more assaulted for their Religion than Muslims in the US? Are South American Catholics absolutely viscous when it comes to Christian Heretics but the same people are tolerant to Vodou? Are there any Evangelical Terror attacks in Kenya I missed?
Compared to South American and Africa, yes, most western countries are very secular societies nowadays and organized christianity has heavily declined, even a lot of places in the USA are rather secular nowadays.
I’d argue that anti-muslim violence in western countries is motivated more by general xenophobia and racism than religion, similar to how German Nazis weren’t motivated by deep religiosity when they genocided Jews.
Catholicism and protestantism have a long history of war and discrimination between them. It’s arguable how much of that was actually about religion, but it certainly makes it easier to motivate the masses. It’s less nowadays because most people in the west don’t take religion seriously anymore, but I’d assume that US evangelicals still have strong opinions on Christians who believe the wrong thing. Not to mention all the Christians outside of the west (i.e. Africa, South America), who actually outnumber westerners.
I know about the 30 years war and whatnot, and it might have been necessary to at least mention the Troubles as a partially religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants that spawned the biggest terrorist attacks in the UK, or perhaps more noteworthy the relationship between Sunni and Shia Muslims and their majority countries…
But be fucking for real. If the West just doesn’t care about religion any more, we wouldn’t have religious discrimination. Do Catholics get more assaulted for their Religion than Muslims in the US? Are South American Catholics absolutely viscous when it comes to Christian Heretics but the same people are tolerant to Vodou? Are there any Evangelical Terror attacks in Kenya I missed?
You are denying reality justifying this.
Compared to South American and Africa, yes, most western countries are very secular societies nowadays and organized christianity has heavily declined, even a lot of places in the USA are rather secular nowadays.
I’d argue that anti-muslim violence in western countries is motivated more by general xenophobia and racism than religion, similar to how German Nazis weren’t motivated by deep religiosity when they genocided Jews.