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.
Like you said, delineating these things is difficult and to some extent subjective and arbitrary.
Christianity, for example, is obviously experienced differently by different people in different cultures.
The type you might run into in the rural midwest of the US will be different then like you said in Latin America or Ethiopia and so on.
Furthermore we could divide it up between Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant etc, those are different.
But then what kind of Protestant? Evangelical? Mainline? etc.
Idk what I am exactly getting at, but I think it has to be a balance between what is practical , while also not being overly broad.
If at some point the c/christianity comm grows to the extent where there is a large enough presence of Latin American comrades saying “this is too white…or american-centric” and they would prefer to have their own then I think that is fair.
As of right now though, I think the separation of the Abrahamic faiths into separate comms is logical and understandable based on the unique experiences of these groups solely in a US context.
I can’t really speak for the dharmic or other religions though.
I don’t think a comm needs to justify itself really.
If their is someone willing to mod it then I don’t see what is lost by allowing it, even if only one person visits it.
:shrug:
I apologize for the tone of my post, but it didn’t start out that way. I just got somewhat jarred by the responses, and especially by the fact that they were getting a lot of upvotes.
