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Taliban bans women from ‘hearing other women’s voices’ (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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In a rambling voice message on Monday, the country’s minister for the promotion of virtue and prevention of vice announced the bizarre new restriction on women’s behaviour.

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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 25 points 10 months ago (9 children)

A tragedy. And too many men I guess are just going along with it.

[–] yeahiknow3@lemmings.world 29 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Religion is a monstrous evil. Especially the Abrahamic cults.

[–] Benjaben@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Bizarre and unique, the Abrahamics' specific (yet general enough) characteristics. And evergreen! See only the Mormon church, a recent cult, for example - unbelievably successful. Invented out of whole cloth within the last 200 years. Tax exempt and owns ~4% of the land in the US today, to say nothing of their business interests (cuz it's even harder to know).

They venerate Jesus.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They don't? They're all about Joseph Smith. Jesus is kinda there win the background.

[–] Benjaben@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They revere Joseph Smith for sure (and some other made up folks like Moroni or whatever) but I think it's incorrect to say Jesus has taken a back seat in their faith. I just toured one of their temples (which they allow only briefly before they consecrate it), JC was everywhere. Not sure I saw any imagery of Joseph Smith, but it was a lot to take in and I may have missed it.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thanks guys I learned something today! I really thought it was Joseph > Jesus but it makes sense you wouldn't talk about the bro every Sunday. lol.

[–] Benjaben@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I could be wrong about things, to be clear, I'm mostly just making inferences from my personal observations, which is gonna come with a lotta holes lol. Cheers, have a good one!

Edit to add: for a fun tidbit, we Mormonized our profanity a bit for grins, it's not uncommon in my household to hear "Joseph fucking Smith!" or "ah thank Joseph Smith" in response to bad or good news, respectively. But that's just us being equal opportunity religious critics, diversity and representation are crucial!

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Atheist here, but grew up mormon: Jesus is definitely the main character. I'm hazy on the details but it's even mormon canon that a lot of events in the old testament involved Jesus in pre-birth spirit form (or something idk), or were at least analogous to his life. Joseph Smith and Brigham Young are to Mormons as any notable dead pope is to Catholics - revered, spiritual authorities, allegedly could talk to god, but they're not worshiped and they didn't come up every Sunday, they were kind of in the background

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