Idk what the original prompt was but it’s take on Aisha is somewhat charitable, no? It is pretty hard to put a number on her age, and cultural norms around age were different back then, as it says.
I get that it’s often used as an islamophobic talking point, but in terms of the purported reality it hasn’t said anything untrue or unfair.
As a sidenote, I’m kind of coming round on Reddit atheists. It’s a shame so many of them turned into bioessentialists and fax n logic type guys, but I preferred them to this new tradcath stuff.
Religion really is a scourge that holds up so much bigotry - that to its believers is completely unquestionable. It’s such a thought terminator. Whilst these Reddit atheists used to spout debunkable science, I always found them on some level reachable because they were operating on a reachable logic - facts did mean something, even if theirs were often warped. Now Christians and Muslims and to a lesser extent Jews, just say guhh it’s unholy it’s demonic or whatever. It’s the dark ages again.
Jewish, Christian, Islam, all these abrahamic faiths are part of the same blob, and I think these days Islam often gets a bit of a shielding from leftists because real islamophobia is so prevalent and is such a powerful psyop - plus there’s a high coincidence of anti imperialist sentiment in Islamic countries (due to the
various empires pillaging of them for 200 years or more).
In of itself, and within leftist circles I feel it’s fair to say that Islam has much in common with Christianity and Judaism, which is to say that it’s also unscientific dogma that has an innate level of conservatism within its sacred texts.
Idk what the original prompt was but it’s take on Aisha is somewhat charitable, no? It is pretty hard to put a number on her age, and cultural norms around age were different back then, as it says.
I get that it’s often used as an islamophobic talking point, but in terms of the purported reality it hasn’t said anything untrue or unfair.
As a sidenote, I’m kind of coming round on Reddit atheists. It’s a shame so many of them turned into bioessentialists and fax n logic type guys, but I preferred them to this new tradcath stuff.
Religion really is a scourge that holds up so much bigotry - that to its believers is completely unquestionable. It’s such a thought terminator. Whilst these Reddit atheists used to spout debunkable science, I always found them on some level reachable because they were operating on a reachable logic - facts did mean something, even if theirs were often warped. Now Christians and Muslims and to a lesser extent Jews, just say guhh it’s unholy it’s demonic or whatever. It’s the dark ages again.
Jewish, Christian, Islam, all these abrahamic faiths are part of the same blob, and I think these days Islam often gets a bit of a shielding from leftists because real islamophobia is so prevalent and is such a powerful psyop - plus there’s a high coincidence of anti imperialist sentiment in Islamic countries (due to the various empires pillaging of them for 200 years or more).
In of itself, and within leftist circles I feel it’s fair to say that Islam has much in common with Christianity and Judaism, which is to say that it’s also unscientific dogma that has an innate level of conservatism within its sacred texts.