• ganksy@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    “I’m like real religious…” Why does religion always end up being a synonym for ignorance and stupidity.

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      9 months ago

      Everyone always calls me edgy when I bring this up but it’s because believing in an obvious fairy tale shows a massive issue with critical thinking and cognitive capability.

      These people essentially still believe in Santa Claus and will die for that belief.

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        9 months ago

        More commonly, will murder for that belief. Which is why this isn’t some edgelord topic, it’s something we need to deal with seriously as a society.

    • CALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 months ago

      Because of absolutely moronic literal scripture interpretations. These imbeciles take the Bible as some kind of all-purpose knowledge encyclopedia, instead of a moral guide.

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          Depends on the subject really, if you remove the bronze age barbarism it actually does have some decent life advice for living in a harmonious way with others, you obviously shouldn’t take anything it says as the final word though, it’s still a book from 3000 years ago with outdated values.

      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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        The Bible is not a moral guide. It has some moral rules in it but the vast majority of it is just stories, things like the descriptions of the temple, and hundreds of ways of saying that God is great.

        The people who wrote it took the earlier parts of it to be literal truth.