• @AnalogyAddict@beehaw.org
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    211 months ago

    That’s not religion. That’s abusers using religion to control people. Which unfortunately the most vocal make sound like that’s all religion.

    • @sin_free_for_00_days
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      711 months ago

      That’s abusers using religion to control people.

      I always thought that was the entire point of religion.

    • @Safeguard@beehaw.org
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      11 months ago

      Islam says (for instance) that they have the final word of god. Thats pretty damning in and of itself. It leaves no room for anything else.

      Christianity had been used through the ages to commit the most heinous crimes against humanity. They still do.

      We should try a world without religion.

      • @AnalogyAddict@beehaw.org
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        11 months ago

        And nothing heinous has ever been done without religion?

        The faithful give over three times as much in charitable donations as the secular, and volunteer three to four times as often.

        Plus, the religious have been persecuted for their beliefs as long as there had been human history, which is what you are proposing by suggesting that religion should be eliminated.