It is even more ironic as Belgium has been the battlefield for warring larger nations like Germany and France in Europe. Belgium has a strong incentive to uphold a rules based international order. Undermining the attempts at building such an order instead will be to the detriment of it.

Belgians should take note. The actions of their government now will pave the paths to their descendents being butchered in a future war without rules.

So you still claim that the crimes of secular/atheist organizations are to be blamed on religion?

Because the criticism you attribute to religiously painted states or organizations can be equally put to secular/atheist organizations.

French Colonialism was secular. The Nazis were largely Atheists. Stalin and Mao were notorious for slaughtering religious people and destroying religious organizations. B.P., BASF, DuPont and other large polluting companies… All secular. Zuckerberg, Musk, Thiel, all Atheists. You would have to equally demand the destruction of all Atheism by your logic, which then ends up in a fallacy.

Or you would have come to terms with the fact that presence or absence of outwardly presented religion does not have any indication as to what is in peoples hearts of good and evil.

If you believe in the destruction of Religion i recommend you to look at the work of Stalin. That is what systematic destruction of Religion looks like in practice.

Zionism is a secular/atheist project. It was strongly opposed by religious Jews at the beginning and still is by many. They had to work very strongly to create some religiously painted zionism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism

You are blaming the side of ethnic Jewish people that mostly opposed Zionism for it. And especially blaming it on the religion is strange, as their motivation for opposing Zionism is religious.

I have the feeling that many people are just projecting their experiences and concepts of their brand of extremist Christians (Evangelical, hardcore Catholics…) onto Jews and Muslims.

Focus on the worst offenders and create pressure to stop them from being complicit in such crimes.

See https://bdsmovement.net/bds-guidelines/bds-guide-strategic-campaigning-palestinian-rights for the way to do targeted boycotts and their impact.

I think she had prepared things before and moved quickly. I am amazed by her braveness and dedication and hope to improve by her example. I hope i can honor her commitment a tiny bit by working to further reduce my microsoft usage.

Yeah. The impermeable bedrock that is readily available in Germany. That is why they are searching for a suitable and politically enforceable place since more than 50 years…

Rising water will leach into your drinking water table.

Using hinkley points C 60 billion Euro as reference, replacing Germanys remaining 74 GW of fossil fuels will cost more like 1200 billion euros.

I wonder how the answers would be if following conditions are added:

• The permanent waste storage facility is built within 10 km of your place of living.
• In order to finance the significantly more expensive nuclear power you have to pay an extra income tax of 5% for the next 50 years.
• Between June and September you will not be provided running water, but have to buy bottled water, so cooling capacities for the reactors are insured even in 37°C+ weather.
• During the transition period until the reactors are ready your electricity price is doubled in order to finance importing electricity from other countries, rather than building cheaper renewables.

They probably wont be. But they never lost a war, prior to October 7 thought to have become more or less invincible and believe the US and European allies to put themselves on the chopping block for them indefinitely.

Israel as a society is on a path of escalating Fascism. These always are self destructive in the end, but accompanied by delusions of grandeur up until one step before the end.

It is worded in a confusing way, you are correct. The EU seems to differ between “Sanctions” and “restrictive measures”. But this seems to be more of a word play, as in another case the terms are used interchangeably by the EU Council.

See the timeline they linked under the article

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/sanctions-against-iran/timeline-measures-targeting-nuclear-proliferation-activities/

2016 16 January Council lifts all nuclear-related economic and financial EU sanctions

On Implementation Day, the Council lifted all nuclear-related economic and financial EU sanctions against Iran. This follows verification by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that Iran has implemented the agreed nuclear-related measures as set out in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

2022 17 October Council maintains restrictive measures after the JCPOA Transition Day

The Council decided to take the necessary steps to maintain the restrictive measures under the EU non-proliferation regime on Iran. The Council concluded that there are valid reasons to refrain from lifting these restrictions on Transition Day (18 October 2023), as originally envisaged under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

As for the reimposed US sanctions in 2018 the EU did extend their Blocking statute to prohibit EU companies from complying with US sanctions, but practically without effect. The proposed clearing house to allow for trade outside the bank system subject to US sanction enforcement never came to life afaik now.

The EU joined in on US sanctions. Initially a mechanism was proposed to trade with direct exchange of goods but never established. Once Iran started to not follow their side of the deal after having had sanctions imposed despite following the agreement, EU countries like Germany shifted blame on Iran. Later renegotiation attempts under Biden failed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Comprehensive_Plan_of_Action#Trump_administration_(2017)

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/jcpoa-iran-restrictive-measures/#United States withdrawal

Since Obama left office there has been strong bipartisan motivation in the US to go to war with Iran. Israel has always been salivating at the idea of the US doing the dirt work for them in fighting a long and hard war with Iran while Israel can enjoy the view.

Geopolitical analysts warn that it is foolish to believe to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons by attacking them. On the contrary the policies of escalation by the US and Israel are motivating Iran to pursue nuclear weapons to protect itself from further attacks. If Iran acquiries nuclear weapons, it will lead to a nuclear arms race in the region as Saudi Arabia, UAE, Turkiye and other western allied countries will perceive a nuclear armed Iran as a strategic threat. I would not be surprised if there is some strategists in Israel and the US who have a fever dream of having Arabs, Turks and Persians annihilate each other, so Israel can invade the remains more easily.

In terms of foreign policy the JCPOA agreement was the greatest achievement of Obama. It could have laid the groundwork to deescalate and create long lasting stability in the Region. Something that Israel and the War Hawks in the US (bipartisan) fundamentally oppose. The EU falling in line when Trump broke the agreement has set back European policy by years if not decades and a mayor escalation the West Asia could push Europe over the cliff into full blown Fascism. Again something the Fascists in the US, Israel and possibly Russia are salivating at.

On what basis comes the conclusion that there is no architect behind it?

Do students in elementary school understand why they have all the subjects? Do students in secondary school understand yet, that if they want to pursue higher education as an engineer they need good math and physics? Do students who prefer the humanities yet understand the focus of studies such as sociology vs. anthropology vs. ethnology? Does me as an engineer not understanding why i had to learn how to analyze poems in grade 7-10 invalidate the necessity of that education for someone who later studied linguistics and literature?

Us not being able to comprehend an architecture does not mean it is not there. In the same way, before there were microscopes bacteria still existed, even though many early proponents of there being small life forms that would cause diseases were ridiculed.

Opposing religion is not scientific. Any good scientist understands the limits of his knowledge. Opposing religion is a matter of faith just as embracing religion is a matter of faith.

This step is not just for Netanyahu. It is likely also for Putin, who will soon be invitable for Hungary. Netanyahu, Trump and Putin are working towards the extreme right in Europe, and i think that Hungary will take the initiative to help building this Axis.

it is not legally binding, but many government bodies treat it like a law, making it tiring to fight against it in the courts all the time.

Ethnostate refers to them explicitly having written in their constitution that they are a state for ethnic Jews. Any civilized country has a constitution that grants human rights to ebery human and certain civil rights based on citizenship. Israel explicitly is designed as an ethnic supremacy apartheid state.

Sure. So in Islam we believe that God and the creation are seperate. All Prophets (peace be upon them) are humans, who have been given prophethood for their virtuous character. Any powers outside the realm of human capacities were granted by God to aid their mission, but it wasn’t their inherent powers.

For a longer read on this from an Islamic perspective i found this article: https://www.reviewofreligions.org/27744/jesus-son-of-god-historical-context-long-read/

As for the development of the Christian idea that Jesus would be the son of God. This is a Greek/Roman idea that was pushed to dominance around the fourth century. Notable is the Council of Nicae, where it was agreed that the concept of Trinity (with Jesus as son of God and some abstract holy spirit) should be the used. As for the reason why, it is likely that the Trinity was chosen to make Christianity more palatable to Polytheists, despite the rejection of polytheism and embrace of monotheism being fundamental to the Abrahamic religions. This is also why the concept is strongly rejected by Jews and Muslims. However also Nontrinitarian Christians exist to this day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea#Outcomes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontrinitarian#History

Jesus also didn’t proclaim himself to be the literal son of God, nor a part of God. That was invented by the churches some 300 years later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea

Both Judaism and Christianity had their scriptures altered over time, serving political goals of the scholar’s class. This is why Islam puts such a strong focus preserving the Quran exactly as it was revealed.

Mixing bigotry against religious people with classism and a sprinkle of racism does not make it rational. There is plenty of religious people who are neither oppressed or poor, nor do they use their religion for oppression of other people.

Religion is not necessarily the same as religious institutions. Christianity is quite an outlier with its heavy centralization in the case of Catholicism, but there is many denominations of Christianity that are not adhering to a centralized institution.