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Religious and superstitious beliefs should not be respected. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We're in the 21st century, and the vast majority of us still believe in an utterly and obviously fictional creator deity. Plenty of people, even in developed countries with decent educational systems, still believe in ghosts or magic (e.g. voodoo). And I--an atheist and a skeptic--am told I need to respect these patently false beliefs as cultural traditions.

Fuck that. They're bad cultural traditions, undeserving of respect. Child-proofing society for these intellectually stunted people doesn't help them; it is in fact a disservice to them to pretend it's okay to go through life believing these things. We should demand that people contend with reality on a factual basis by the time they reach adulthood (even earlier, if I'm being completely honest). We shouldn't be coddling people who profess beliefs that are demonstrably false, simply because their feelings might get hurt.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Cumulative. You need to be an atheist in order to advance into being an anti-theist.

Your examples with Elvis and flat earthers are poor.

It is possible to clearly demonstrate how and why the flat earth theory falls flat; it's proposers are intellectualy dishonest individuals that won't even accept their own findings that disprove their theory.

Regarding Elvis... where is the harm in that? At some point, just by the simple accumulation of time, the belief will die out. The King was a mere human and humans are finite.

The same can not be said about religions, where its crux resides outside the realm of what can be proved or disproved by scientific endeavor. It is not possible to disprove the existence of a supernatural entity; what can be attacked are tenets and demonstrated as obsolete or invalid.

I have nothing against your position but find it banal at this point. It is not new, it is not something previously unconsidered and offers no real solutions just like its counterpart.

My lack of belief stems from a long process of self analysis, through which I systematically removed from my worldview belief. I feel no need to demand from others the same, even if they are educated, as you state in your post.

Belief and the lack thereof must be personal and private affairs.