Good to be able to hash out leftist strains to counter reactionary hindu nationalists, etc.
EDIT: Also requesting c/jainism and c/sikhism (in addition to c/buddhism and c/hinduism requested in original OP).
EDIT 2: WTF these replies and the number of upvotes (except for some that seemed to be legit good faith)… No wonder POC don’t feel welcome on this site. Mods? @Beatnik @ScreamoBMO @EcoSoco @Uncle_Hoe @Gorn
EDIT 3: To those asking “How would these comms be relevant?”, asking this is kinda whack in the first place, because why would asking for a religious comm need justification to exist when there are other religious comms already existing? But just for those who do want “justification”, here’s a leftist podcast talking about Buddhism: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/buddhism. As for Hinduism, it’s pretty obvious with Modi and his nationalist goons that it’s a relevant topic. Similarly, it is Sikhs who are risking their lives in the insurrection against the Indian government right now. Oh and one of the most important struggles against colonialism was heavily influenced by the non-violent philosophy of Jainism (i.e. Indian independence from the British). Like I said before, why I even have to justify this in the first place is mega whack, but there you go.
Yeah not gonna lie lots of weird racist undercurrents in this thread.
The Discord has a single text channel for religion and spirituality. We ought to do the same and roll any religious communities into one.
That sounds fair. It’s kinda like c/languagelearning. There’s lots of languages but they all fit under one.
It’s just curious that there’s all this pushback when “the brownz religions” like hinduism, buddhism, etc. are proposed when there are quite niche communities already like c/rojava or c/kurdistan. I also wonder how many of those pushing back against what I proposed in the OP are also wall street bet bros who were pushing hard for a comm to do their stonk shit.
I think they’re mostly pushing back because the communities would be dead. The text channel I mentioned is pretty slow as-is. People who are religious at all are bound to be a minority on a far-left forum, and people who follow Eastern religions even more so on a primarily English-language forum. A single religion/spirituality/occultism com would generate more discussion than a series of individual subs.
This problem of niche coms is something that we see clearly with c/kurdistan and c/rojava. Instead, we could have a single com for Middle East news that would be much more active.
People who are religious at all are bound to be a minority on a far-left forum, and people who follow Eastern religions even more so on a primarily English-language forum.
Actually, with the prevalence of mediation and interest in Buddhism really poppin off these days, I’d argue that there would be more people in a comm like c/buddhism than c/christianity.
I’m not intrinsically opposed to the idea, but a concern I would have is at some point one of the communities overshadowing or smothering the others.
I guess there could be the reverse and these communities receive more traffic…but then the question is traffic from whom?
I’d also understand if these comms would want to not be grouped up with all the others and remain independent to also serve as a secondary function as sort of safe space for those groups.
I don’t think it’s something we really have to worry about right now, as c/judaism, c/islam, and c/christianity to my knowledge aren’t getting all that much traffic.
If one religious tradition ends up overshadowing the others, then that is the time to split off a new community. As near as I can tell, that’s how new communities have been formed recently - too much of one thing in main. Stocks, for example.
A fair point I suppose.
But I don’t really see what is gained…besides maybe a sense of religious solidarity?
If people are interested in multiple religions they can subscribe to multiple of the comms or even click on them individually to check them out, no?
I don’t think I’m down for modding, but I’m sure there are plenty that are.
The only ones that I feel somewhat qualified to mod would be hinduism and buddhism. But even then, with Buddhism most of my knowledge is from the Theravada tradition of Burma. As for Hinduism, there are so many varying sects and my knowledge is more of breadth rather than depth.