The harm of religion is historically evident whereas the presence or absence of gods is not. Ultimately, the continued existence of religion is predicated on the indoctrination of children and suppression of rational thought. Therefore I am against religion but not necessarily against the idea of gods. For all we know gods are computer scientists and we are in their video game.

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we wuz romans marble bust statue

worship of “reason”

shills dogshit html website

“muh relijin is le bad”

unironic south park reference

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My definition goes as follows: religion is characterized by a group of people—fallible like any of us—who decide upon a set of ideas that cannot be questioned.

This fundamentally misunderstands religion as religion is a set of practices first and a set of beliefs second.

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There’s an idea behind the set of practices.

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There is only one god and one religion sitting in judgement of human affairs and its name is capital

MF’s will literally invent entire new philosophies for worlds that don’t exist, rather than face the horror staring us in the face

You think anyone will care about the theological underpinnings of millennia old faiths when capitalism cooks the earth?

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Why should we carve some kind of special exception for God’s existence (let’s face it, it’s always the Christian one) when we don’t do the same for Bigfoot or fairies

No one should realistically give a shit since none of the above are clearly not having any effect on the material world in any way

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Now excuse me, I’m gonna go speculate about sensible things like aliens

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The world is full of great comrades who happen to be religious; solidarity with them is much more important than what this is.

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Solidarity with the people, yes. But in general not with their religion.

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