bonus points if you get banned for sharing it

i'll start: most "vote blue no matter who" liberals are actually good people (not including terminally online liberals as anyone who is terminally online is a bad person)

  • booty [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Alternate universe where everyone believes in bigfoot and only fringe weirdos believe in gods:

    I'm an asasquatcher, but that is a completely ridiculous statement. For better or worse (and I tend to think worse), bigfoot is part of the fabric of most societies, it's not comparable to stuff like gods.

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      Well we do not live in that universe, we live in the universe where religion and spirituality has played a key part in the human experience, since the beginning, and has evolved alongside us. Every culture on every part of the planet had some kind of spiritual belief system at some point..That's the point I'm trying to make. It's here now, and it's not going to disappear. Even if people abandon religion as a belief, they will not be abandoning the spiritual traditions that they grew up with (see how many atheists still celebrate Christmas for instance). The influence of religion will continue to exist long after we die, even if the majority of the world is not religious/atheist/agnostic by then.

      • booty [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Religion and spirituality plays absolutely no part in my human experience and doesn't need to play any part in anyone else's either.

        Hunger has played a key part in the human experience since the beginning but we'd like to eradicate hunger.

        It's here now, and it's not going to disappear

        You could say the same about capitalism with just as much evidence.

        Even if people abandon religion as a belief, they will not be abandoning the spiritual traditions that they grew up with (see how many atheists still celebrate Christmas for instance)

        Celebrating holidays does not necessarily have anything to do with religion or spirituality, regardless of where those holidays originated. I'm saying people should not be taken seriously when they state that they believe in the supernatural, and you retort by saying, "But it's not bad when people get drunk and throw a party on a specific calendar day! Curious! very-intelligent" It's a complete non-sequitur.

    • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      Religion is ritual first and belief second. It's only Christianity that flipped this around to place an emphasis on belief over ritual. That's how some dude who only goes to church on Christmas can get away with calling themselves a Christian if he believe in Jesus when this is completely untrue for every other religion. For almost every other religion in world history, religion is more about what you do than what you believe in.