At least 320 of the dead are from Egypt and Saudi officials report treating more than 2,000 people for heat stress
    • HomerianSymphony@lemmy.world
      22·
      17 days ago

      550 people just died and your only response is to mock their religion.

      What kind of person are you? Have you no decency?

      If this had been an outdoor rock concert, would you start mocking their taste in music?

      • n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        01·
        16 days ago

        Absolutely not, 0 decency. Us anti theists are repugnet creatures not worthy of heaven…

      • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
        01·
        17 days ago

        People at a rock concert wouldn’t feel obliged to stay and would be able to leave without guilt or fear.

        I don’t understand why they didn’t have anything set up to accommodate the Pilgrims to cool them off or maybe restrict access to a limited number of people to allow them to be spaced out enough to have some breathing room.

        I know if a tragic event, but god damn religion is stupid. All religions. Even those that encourage monks to starve themselves or suffer for enlightenment. As an atheist this all makes no fucking sense.

        • HomerianSymphony@lemmy.world
          01·
          17 days ago

          and would be able to leave without guilt or fear.

          People can leave hajj at any time and come back later. They won’t miss anything.

          It’s not an endurance event.

        • HomerianSymphony@lemmy.world
          01·
          17 days ago

          Even those that encourage monks to starve themselves

          What religion do you think you’re talking about here? Catholic monks don’t starve themselves, and neither do Buddhist monks.

          I don’t think there’s any religion that’s like that. I feel like you’re attacking a straw man.

          Edit: Are you getting confused with the story of how the Buddha, pre-enlightenment, tried starving himself, and then taught that monks shouldn’t do that?

          As an atheist this all makes no fucking sense.

          Maybe it makes no sense because you just made it up.

          • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
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            17 days ago

            You need to chill.

            I didn’t make anything up. There are people in South Asia that do these things to gain enlightenment. I do believe they are Buddhists but I may be mistaken.

            Or mayby probably didn’t get the memo.

            • HomerianSymphony@lemmy.world
              01·
              17 days ago

              I didn’t make anything up. There are people in South Asia that do these things to gain enlightenment.

              Your claim was that there are religions that encourage monks to starve themselves.

              Now you’re backtracking.

      • Frokke@lemmings.world
        02·
        17 days ago

        TIL rock music is homophobic, oppresses women, has some pretty barbaric rules and validates murdering anyone else not listening to rock music.

        • HomerianSymphony@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          17 days ago

          and validates murdering anyone else not listening to rock music.

          Islam doesn’t say that Muslims are allowed to murder non-Muslims.

    • HomerianSymphony@lemmy.world
      01·
      17 days ago

      The problem here is climate change, not Islam.

      Edit: This will be happening in more and more places as time goes by.

      • ID411@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        18 days ago

        Hopefully “pilgrimage” doesn’t mean flying from all corners of the world spraying carbon everywhere, for the sake a 2000 year old fictional story ?

        And if it is, let’s hope it’s not to a country built on the extraction of fossil fuels and builds indoor snow domes in the desert ?