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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/57200816
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According to an arrest notice received by his family on 5 August and seen by Amnesty International, Zhang Yi was formally arrested on 28 July 2026 on suspicion of “inciting separatism”(煽动分裂国家罪). His family was informed of the arrest by telephone on 30 July.
Zhang Yi was detained by police in Lhasa on 1 July 2026 while visiting Sera Monastery in Tibet with his younger brother. After he was unable to communicate verbally with a Tibetan worshipper from whom he wished to borrow a prayer mat, Zhang Yi showed the person a photograph of the Dalai Lama on his mobile phone. According to his family abroad, two plainclothes men observed the interaction and appeared to record Zhang Yi and his brother as they left the prayer area. Police detained Zhang Yi before he had left the monastery.
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For some reason the west has decided that religious madness should be a freedom for all, and allowed to run wild.
Religion is demonstrably harmful, it is superstition and people building their lives on superstitious practices are bound to make bad decisions that is harmful to themselves and their families and society as a whole.
I wonder when we will see more balance introduced to debates on religious freedom. Yes you have the freedom to believe what you want. But should you also have the freedom to spread demonstrably harmful superstitious beliefs?If ignorance was a person and couldn’t read books - this is what it’d be posting online.
I can’t tell if this is a troll comment or not, but I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt, and, in hopes of encouraging studying topics before spreading hate about them, provide this small piece.
Do you think you’re smarter, more intelligent, and/or better informed than scientists are? Well, you should know that many scientists are religious, and don’t see any conflict between science and religion.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2378023116664353
If that doesn’t make sense to you - try researching it and reading more on the topic. I guarantee you that there’s a clear answer here, and you’ll find it if you look. I used to be baffled by this fact too, until I spent some time educating myself.
First per the article you linked, the religiousness among scientists typically vary from a third to half of the general population.
Clearly indicating that religiousness declines with higher education.But apart from that:
So you are saying that because some scientists too are superstitious it proves superstitions are valid?Let’s take a concrete example here, one of the most brilliant scientists of all time, that solved the problem of AC electro motors and generators when nobody else in the world could. Nikola Tesla was highly superstitious and would favor numbers 3-6-9, and avoid stepping on cracks in the pavement, and he hated pearls as he thought they had magical properties.
Am I more intelligent than Nikola Tesla was? No of course not. But that doesn’t mean his superstitions were rational.
If you look at larger scale on the countries that are the least religious in the world, you will see that several polls show the Scandinavian countries are among the absolute least religious. They are also among the highest educated, and they score very high on happiness and just about every measure about the quality of society.
On the other end, Africa is the most superstitious and religious continent and also the least educated. Where you can find stories about goats being judged in court, because they think it is a wizard that transformed himself (yes literally!).
Obviously there are also non religious scientists, and all research shows that on average religiousness drop with higher education.
By your post I’m guessing you are religious yourself. And I’d like to ask how and why you chose your particular religion over another religion?
Well, you hold pretty harmful and disrespectful beliefs, and here you can keep writing bullshit on the internet without any repercusion. Gon on buddy.
Why do delusional superstitions deserve respect? And why do they deserve special treatment?
Why is indoctrination of children with these superstitions even allowed?I am not doing harm, I am not indoctrinating anyone, and I am not discriminating anyone, at least not anymore than Nazism being illegal in many countries discriminate Nazism because that too is considered a harmful belief.
It’s not as simple as superstition. Turns out, the world isn’t black and white.
