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No shifting the goalposts! This was my original claim
The analogy I used elsewhere was
to show this I only need to show examples where christianity hasn't caused settler-colonialism and one example was ethiopian christians. You then blamed the ethiopians for their societies state and not the colonizers.
your claim that christianity (or rather all religion? Seeing the religious justification for pissrahell is judaism) is the cause is a much stronger one that requires more than some articles off of a half-assed google search. I however linked you a video that details the rise of us evangelical missionaries as caused by the empire and not the other way around. And a whole-ass book on settlerism.
so you agree it was a justification, not the cause?
Strawman so dry australia declared it a national threat
and yet, no opinions on readsettlers.org?
It is the ROOT cause of racism and white supremacy. These are integral to colonialism. You have failed to prove your point. You have also failed to defend Christianity.
Take your goalposts and go the fuck home unless you have something other than denialism to add to the conversation.
Integral doesn't mean they are the root cause? The wheels are integral to the cars movement, doesn't mean they make the car move
So have you
That was never my intention. I want to point at the cause of settlerism (in Palestine and elsewhere) and not have smug western atheist thinking they are not part of the problem just by not being religious.
I have in my corner
so I have more than denialism to add, you on the other hand don't even make an argument at how religion gives rise to racism (and white supremacy? as if they're distinct?) or try to explain why any of the other christian sects didn't suddenly spawn racism, you're pinholed into not just a european christianity, but western european christianity specifically and from there extrapolate to all of Christianity and Judaism at least, I'm not sure how far you're willing to extrapolate from there all abrahamic religions? all organized religions? all religions? What level of idealism are we on?