• huginn@feddit.it
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    2 months ago

    There is not a single thing that a religion does to help people that is irreplaceable with non-parasitic communal structures.

    What religion does beyond helping people is leech off of superstition and ignorance to control and coerce its adherents into its modes.

    If a religion is free of superstition it ceases to be a religion: requiring no faith.

    Cultural practices are beautiful and deserve preservation - religions are shackles that keep those marginalized people we care about enslaved to the past.

    Religion as a concept is evil.

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      2 months ago

      So you traded one kind of nuance-less fundamentalism for another. That sounds comforting.

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        2 months ago

        To call my statements unnuanced is patently false. Unnuanced is your assertion that getting rid of religion is genocidal.

        You consistently conflate religion and culture and act as though a group that lets their religion die has somehow had a genocide committed against them.

        The death of a religion is not the death of the culture and genocide has no role my desire for the extinction of the dark and superstitious past that we are in the process of leaving.