Post #729970

2026-03-23 10:55 UTC

Little Englanders foaming at the mouth about Islam in Britain, you sound like a 75 year old pished guy in a bowler hat and orange sash ranting in the pub about the looming threat of the papacy. Ordinary Muslims you'd encounter in the UK are no more sinister and alien than ordinary Catholics. One day a week they maybe (or not) go to a fancy building to talk about God in a way that you don't connect with. Please try to be normal about that rather than let it eat your whole identity.

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@fazalmajid@social.vivaldi.net 2026-03-23 12:17

@petealexharris@mastodon.scot There are more practicing Catholics than Anglicans in England today. You don't hear them spouting this bile. Though to be fair, white nationalists are really Mammonists, not Christians of any stripe.

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@Phosphenes@mastodon.social 2026-03-23 12:39

@petealexharris@mastodon.scot Immigrants have simply invented a new kind of Englishman who can tan and handle spicy food. Long overdue upgrades.

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@Robo105@mastodon.social 2026-03-23 14:03

@petealexharris@mastodon.scot Well said

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@jayalane@mastodon.online 2026-03-23 14:19

@petealexharris@mastodon.scot when I was a kid I happened to read The Religions of Man by Huston Smith. As the title indicates it was typical mid 20th c Western academic writing, but he had a gift for sharing something of the interior reason why people value their religions as a practitioner. After each religion was covered I would feel a bit of regret that I hadn’t been brought up in the covered religion. 1/2

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@LillyHerself@mastodon.social 2026-03-23 16:05

@petealexharris@mastodon.scot I find all religious people rather sinister! For example, all the weird stuff they claim actually exists, their subservience to a patriarchal hierarchy, or the way they "other" people who aren't members of their particular hallucination club. I find them all equally creepy.

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@Kerplunk@mastodon.scot 2026-03-23 19:20

@petealexharris@mastodon.scot Little Englanders foaming at the mouth about Islam in Britain, Goated by millionair shit like Farage and Jacob Reese Mog Frustrated by Starmers Labour Remember Starmers Island of Strangers speech He gets stranger by the day

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