"Wait, wait... stop... STOP!"

"Now, who's carrying the DUCK banner, and who's carrying t'other?"

(insert Monty Python, please)

Fun fact: Allah means God.

More than that: Judaism, Christianity and Islam all believe in the same god and the same creation story (more or less). Not to mention, different denominations within each religion (e.g. Catholic, Protestant for Christianity). It seems these shared beliefs don't really contribute to any kind of peace.

It took me ~10 seconds to figure out how those banners work. Nice.

I'm trying to get away from my radical atheist days, but monotheism specifically seems to definitively not play well with others.

What does it mean to believe in the "same god" if god isn't real?

This is unironically the case in the muslim world today. Different groups killing each other in the bloodiest ways over the most miniscule differences.

It seems these shared beliefs don't really contribute to any kind of peace.

I mean, that's because very few conflicts are fought over religion on its own. It's usually part of a larger fight, at which point the larger fight will need to be resolved even if both sides believe in similar religions. Besides, since peace is the absence of conflict, it's always going to be impossible to tell if it contributing to some kind of peace because you can't know which conflicts aren't being fought. You can always have more race religion wars.

The Thirty Year War was quite a while ago but until fairly recently there was real animosity between Catholics and Protestants in Germany.

Well, they all accept the book Old Testament as canon, they just disagree on which fan theory correctly continues that story.

I think you're ignoring the importance of religious identity as the definitive motivating factor in a lot conflict, but I agree that sometimes it plays a more minor role.

Christians and Jewish people that pray in Arabic also pray to Allah. Western Christians really don’t like that.

I mean, examples? Pretty much every ostensibly religious example I can think of off the top of my head is fundamentally driven by something else. Now that doesn't make religion unimportant in these conflicts, but it's not definitive and it's entirely possible and/or likely other fault lines would've been found instead.

Pfft, losers. Old Woman God is better than both of these!

Yup, which is extremely similar to Christians and their "European wars of religion" that had them slaughtering each other for hundreds of years, and more recently "the Troubles" until 1998.

Jews aren't above it either, though their examples are more biblical and not nearly the same body count. The Samaritans and the schism that turned into Christianity come to mind.

radical atheist

"hello, have you heard about our savior, 'just not being an asshole'?"

door slams

"obviously fucking not"

The guy in the lower side of the image is the one talking.

Man!

And I'm 37!

The European wars of religion?

If you don't think there is such a thing as radical atheism, you might be in a radically atheistic echo chamber. There absolutely is a way to take it too far. For example, thinking that all religions should be abolished forever.

Personally I am also an atheist bordering on radical :D

I still don’t get it. Look completely identical besides orientation. But both look like duck to me.

The duck's bill becomes the rabbit's ears and then the rabbit is looking the other way (and you can't see its mouth)

🤦‍♂️now I see it. Thank you!

Well I can't just call you "man"

Batman isn't real either, and has had different interpretations over the years, but all Batman fans are fans of the same character regardless of which version of Batman they prefer.

They need to update their banners.

I'd rather educate religion away than oppress it, but I do think we'd be better off without any kind of supernatural belief. I know that's a radical, extreme position.

That one is creepy!

What else am I supposed to see besides a lady with a hat?

An old lady with a hat

It's young lady with a hat facing away and an old lady with a hat facing to the side. Young lady's ear is old lady's eye, young lady's nose is a mole-like bump on old lady's nose, and so on. Never liked this one personally, the old lady is too much of a stretch for my brain to accept.

Did you just compare my Duck to the heathens Rabbit? BLASPHEMER!

"Today"

The troubles definitely had religious overtones and justifications, but it was a war about colonial control and cultural repression. You'd be hard pressed to find a British soldier who was fighting to defend protestantism instead of "the empire" or the queen, and you'd be hard pressed to find an IRA member who cared more about Catholic dominance in Ireland than independence.

The wars of religion basically used religion as a cudgel in a fight to dominate Europe and over tensions between the power centers of the Vatican and European royal courts. Entirely political but with religious marketing and pageantry.

Even the Sunni/Shia conflict, most Sunnis and Shias around the world have no issue with each other. Most of the time there's violence assigned to sectarianism, it's just like Ireland and Europe, that sectarian divide is inflamed by bad actors instigating artificial tensions and then using them to justify political and economic conquest. ISIS wanted to get rich by snapping up all the oil fields in a largely lawless region. Iran wants regional political dominance and economic control over the straight of hormuz. Israel wants to control the entire Middle East apparently. All of them have religious overtones to the conflict but the religion isn't the reason for the conflict.

The last real religious wars were the crusades. Europe stood to gain nothing but "God's favor" by taking back the holy land, it was nothing but a burden to repeatedly invade and fund intermittently occupying. Going back further, Muhammad's early Muslim conquests are another example of a true "religious war".

Little Ducky Spoon

I mean Hindus are also like this. The amount hatred and violence over being born into different casts is disgusting, though I'm not as familiar with it or other religions. I come from an islamic background

Isn't it the crusades as well?

Ear is eye, Chin is nose, Necklace is mouth

What do you mean how they work? It's obviously the banners of the duck god and rabbit god.

All hail the mighty duck god! Death to the rabbit god infidels.

Classic.

Yeah... I'm having a hard time making out the old lady

Easier to show this way,

One view: young lady. We see her from the back, looking away from the “camera”, her left ear towards us, wearing a necklace

Other view: old lady. Instead of the left ear, the same point served as the eye, the necklace instead serving as the mouth

It means they all believe in the same god.

But what about the Great Green Arkleseizure

Too true

Caste isn't formally used in India anymore, was abolished a while ago. Could be a cultural thing but that will fade with time

I've been going back and forth and can't find the rabbit symbolism

I know you're not responsible for this:

But what old lady wears a frill around their chin?

Conclusion: The young lady is real, the old lady is the illusion.