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[–] [email protected] 110 points 3 weeks ago (40 children)

Religion is a scam built to take advantage and control the uneducated masses.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Except that many highly educated people are also into religions :(

[–] [email protected] 88 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Childhood indoctrination works wonders to keep you scam going.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago

The whole life has a purpose and eternal soul thing make people want to believe as well

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[–] [email protected] 103 points 3 weeks ago (13 children)

I met people on both sides that had either of those attitudes.
The "I'm always right because I have a PHD" is not uncommon, even on fields not covered by their education. At the same time, I've met many religious people (Muslims, Hindus, Christians) that for them religion was a private, personal aspect that helped them deal with their lives. As a kind of a routine, something done time and time again enough to clear up their minds from stress and give them an anchor when lost.

I'm not religious, but I believe in freedom and the pursuit of happiness, and I support anyone as long as it doesn't interfere with other's.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 weeks ago

My God, a reasonable person talking about religion on lemmy

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

I see somebody downvoted you already, but I completely agree with you 💯

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

"I'm 14 and this is deep."

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

Yeah I’m not so sure about this haha. I work in academia, and there is quite the abundance of closed mindedness and dogmatism.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah no one seems interested in my perpetual motion machine.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

In this Lemmy we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

I think that's just the comfortable position for humans. Questioning what you know to be true is hard, and the more fundamental the fact the more uncomfortable it is to doubt. Which is also why religion is so attractive.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Except they don't even read their own book.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago

Religion is a very broad umbrella. Quite many people understand the divine as an unknowable mystery they never stop being curious about

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago

The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

The less you know, the less you know you don't know.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

Sometimes religion: "it requires faith, therefore we can and should stop learning."

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Religion: I don't know everything...but my god does!

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Religion is an absolute rotting cancer

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not all religions claim to know everything.

Yes, the ones that do tend to be violent and oppressive, so I understand the criticism.

But many religions are more about searching truth, learning to love each other and have community. And their followers definitely tend to be modest and have a "I don't know enough" mentality.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

Religiosity is a spectrom and people of any extreme can be found in every religion. Because religion is human made fairytales and used for whatever it needs to be.

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