On substack, I will bash religion because of my trauma

Blaming the Lawgiver when humans break the Law is a famous critique on substack.

Don’t you think a good, just God wouldn't let a genocide happen on the face of the Earth?”

This is the exact argument appearing on almost every feminist post in my feed right now. look… I’m a feminist too. I read posts written by women because I am one. I don’t pay as much attention to what men are writing, but if you think that’s unfair, fine :) let’s even it out.

The arguments being thrown around on substack right now by supposedly educated men and women..; calling religion nothing more than a “patriarchal propaganda tool” or a “cult”- are fundamentally absurd. Yeah, that’s my opinion. And if you get to rant on this platform, then why can’t I?

The only difference is you’re ranting with your emotions. I’m going to do it with logic.

me dodging incoming hateful comments

So let’s start by debunking the single biggest catalyst behind most of these anti Abrahamic rants:

The claim that religion is just patriarchy.

Let’s be intellectually honest for two minutes: patriarchy isn’t a product of the Abrahamic faiths. Patriarchy is an ancient, universal human social structure that existed thousands of years before Moses, Jesus, or Muhammad pbuh.

To look at human history and declare that religion invented the oppression of women isn’t just lazy… it’s historically illiterate.

Look at the ancient secular world.

In classical enlightened ancient Greece, the celebrated birthplace of western democracy, women were legal non-entities. Philosophers like Aristotle explicitly wrote that women were incomplete humans and were inferior by nature. he emphasized that women were destined solely to be ruled. In roman law, the paterfamilias gave fathers the legal right to execute their own daughters.

TO EXECUTE THEIR DAUGHTERS, Y’ALL.

Now look what the revelations actually did.

When Abrahamic texts were revealed, they didn’t invent patriarchy. they severely restricted the unchecked brutality of the men who ran it.

In Islam, the quran banned female infanticide and gave women guaranteed property rights and financial independence. islam also gave women inheritance right over 1,400 years before western women won the right to open a bank account without a husband’s permission.

In early Christianity, the message that men and women were spiritually equal before God and that husbands were obligated to lay down their lives for their wives was considered wildly radical in a roman society that treated women as disposable property.

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if these faiths were designed purely to empower men at the expense of women, they did a terrible job. A truly patriarchal propaganda system wouldn’t give women legal rights to land, business, divorce or spiritual autonomy.

yeah. I know you’ll say, what about the verses in the bible and koran (that is the wrong pronoinciation btw, you racist). When you can say the name of Friedrich Miescher or Wilhelm Röntgen in a decent way then why can’t you pronounce Islam instead of izlam, muslim instead of mazlim or quran instead of koran? lol. you’re racist.

(btw Miescher discovered DNA and Rontgen discovered X-rays)

And about the verse thing, I can’t say anything about christianity but I’ll look into it. About islam, I can write essays, citing every controversial verse or hadith about alleged misogyny but your pseudo intellectual mind would still call me brainwashed, then why should I bother? lol. I love free speech.

(I will write stuff on it and I’m sorry for that tone, ml. I was jokin’. It’s targeted to specific bots.)

Back to the topic now.

you’re confusing culture with religion.

no doubt, men have used religion to control women. That is an undeniable fact. But men have also used science, politics, economics, philosophy, and medicine to control women.

Should we abandon medicine because male doctors historically lobotomized “hysterical” women?

Should we call science “patriarchal propaganda” because 19th-century biologists claimed women’s brains were too small for higher education?

Of course not. We recognize that flawed and power hungry humans weaponized a system for their own benefit. Yet, when it comes to faith, the rules suddenly change.

When a man misuses a religious text to abuse his power, people don’t blame the man. they blame the God he falsely claims to serve.

The real irony here is that by reducing Abrahamic faiths to nothing more than a “patriarchal cult,” you are doing the exact same thing abusive men have done for centuries: You Are Stripping Women Of Their Agency.

You are looking at millions of educated, brilliant, independent women across the world; scholars, activists, mothers, leaders… who actively choose their faith, and you’re telling them: “You’re just brainwashed. You don’t know what’s good for you.”

tbh, that’s just a new form of condescension wearing a feminist badge.

I won’t let my anger toward bad humans corrupt my ability to see historical facts. You can criticize cultural abuse all day long. I’ll stand right beside you and do it too. But if you’re going to attack the fundamental nature of these faiths, bring actual logic and history to the table. Because right now, your argument isn’t against God; it’s against human nature.

many things can be said but let’s save some for another post.

Let’s tackle the biggest emotional weapon thrown around on Substack: "If God is good, why does He let bad things happen? Why does He allow genocides?"

This argument sounds morally profound on the surface, but philosophically it runs into an immediate internal contradiction. When people raise this point, they think they are dismantling God. In reality, they are just exposing their own refusal to look at human free will and accountability.

Who is committing the genocide?

Humans are. Human beings are designing the weapons, giving the orders, pulling the triggers, and staying silent for political gain.

What do these rants demand?

They demand that God step in and physically stop human evil. But you cannot demand human freedom, moral autonomy and choice, and then curse God the moment humans use that freedom to choose evil.

You’re blaming the Lawgiver when people break the Law.

God didn’t sign the military contracts. God didn’t design the missiles, pull the triggers or cover up the body counts for political gain. We humans, did. People love to talk about human rights, human freedom and autonomy until humans use that exact freedom to do something horrific. Then suddenly it’s God’s fault for not stepping in and stopping it.

If God overrides human choices every time a human decides to act maliciously, then moral free will does not exist. it is an illusion. You cannot logically demand that humans have the freedom to choose good while simultaneously demanding that God forcibly prevent them from choosing evil.

A world where humans cannot choose to do harm is a world where humans are puppets, not moral agents. When a genocide happens, it is not a failure of God’s goodness. it is a direct logical consequence of human beings exercising moral agency in direct violation of divine law.

Think about what you’re actually asking for. You want a world where humans have total free will except when they decide to choose evil… at which point you want God to step in as a cosmic dictator and override their choices. But you can’t have it both ways. You can’t demand moral agency and then curse God the moment people use that agency to act like monsters.

Without God, you can’t even call genocide “wrong.”

This is the contradiction nobody on the secular side wants to face. If you throw God out the window then on what logical basis are you calling a genocide bad?

The only reason you have a visceral, gut level outrage when you see innocent people slaughtered is because you believe human life is sacred. You believe human beings have inherent dignity that no king, army, or government has the right to erase. Where do you think that idea came from?

Is it simply an instinct shaped by evolution? A product of culture and centuries of religious tradition? Something woven into our nature? Or does it point to a transcendent moral law and a Lawgiver?

These questions don’t prove God’s existence, but they do expose a deeper issue. if morality is entirely a human invention then on what grounds can we say genocide is objectively evil rather than universally detested?

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