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Fuck religion. So incredibly devious to spin the (normal) fear of death into a lifetime of obligation. Taking advantage of the curious intellectual property of human nature in order to plasticize the population. So gross.
Ewww, I stepped in religion.
Couldn't have said it better myself 👏
Of course. Sects like The Religious Society of Friends and the UUs are definitely brainwashing and oppressing people. That’s not at all an overgeneralization based on your experiences with the strictly hierarchical and imperialist forms of religion that are most dominant in the culture.
I'm not taking any school of thought that encourages magical thinking seriously.
It's all brain poison, maybe your brain poison is less harmful but it's still brain poison.
I’m not religious. I just don’t hate all religion because some of them are harmful.
My favorite part of this ridiculous interaction is how you took my blanket statement and tried to make spcific examples fit into my generalization, which you already have convinced yourself are not worth metal effort. but here you are letting whatever the fuck you just said, live rent free, and spew out randomly and awkwardly. Have fun with that.
So you made a sweeping generalization, and I came up with some counterexamples, and you think insulting me is an effective response? Wow, your skill at analysis and argument is literally indescribable.