Hi comrades,
We’ve received some reports recently and so I’m making this announcement.
In our rules, Lemmygrad does not lean one way or the other towards religion. This means that in effect, we accept all communists no matter their religion or lack thereof.
However, this doesn’t mean we allow feuds or unprincipled criticism. This seems to come especially from our atheist comrades, who sometimes (from what has made its way to us) see it fit to remind religious comrades that religion shouldn’t exist.
While we appreciate that the criticism is about religion and not the particular beliefs of some comrades, this kind of discourse does not have its place on Lemmygrad as we effectively don’t lean one way or another and expect users to lean that way too.
edit: as such, this reminder also applies to religious comrades.
We’re very hands off with moderation and we’d like it to remain that way in a community as tight-knit as ours.
This doesn’t mean that you can’t criticize religion or atheism, as long as it comes in good faith and is done from a Marxist basis.
This principle also applies to other contentious topics that are prone to debate on our platform.
I think I started this in the long-run.
That said: I will lay off for now.
I do not like religion as someone that has experienced religious trauma and I have a friend that especially got it worse in a way you can’t even imagine.
That said, I will leave it at that.
I think religion is not good overall, but often times, how I express myself regarding it can seem a bit curt and leave nothing up for discussion.
That is all for now. I do not consider religion and Marxism to be, by and large, compatible in most aspects of each other. So that’s my position. But, at the same token, I know that other religions besides Christianity have been attacked in a way that is racist, overly combative, and culturally insensitive. I can understand the context behind that, given that I’ve been the target of Islamophobia, especially during my youth.
Anyway, take care, y’all.