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I am not sure about you guys but getting rid of religion has helped improve my mental health
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this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2024
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This is the official Lemmy for the r/ReligiousCringe***** subreddit. This is a community about poking fun at the religious fundamentalist's who take their religion a little bit too far. Here you will find religious content that is so outrageous and so cringeworthy that even someone who is mildly religious will cringe.
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I can see why they might think that. Churches bred and centeralised community. But it can happen anywhere, in Australia, where we have very few churches, communities center around sports clubs.
IMO, materialism and modernism has changed the populous' focus away from community, shifting to the values of capital (which serves only capital) and forcing everyone into a 40 hour work week. While financial independence from a majoritively abusive male cast, a female member of each household could maintain social connections to their community and share in unpaid labour with households nearby. [To disuade docwhistle; the neo liberal solution to this is a 4 day week (not tradwives).]
There is simply no way to have societal mental health without community.
However, people who feel safe and supported by their communities are more difficult to manipulate and dominate, they are harder to proffit from as they pool their resources and keep their money within their community. As such, I do not think we will see a solution to this problem under the current system.
It's important to have a third place. Somewhere else to go besides home and work.
Religion offered that but the third place doesn't necessarily need to be a church. It could be a bar "where everybody knows your name", a coffee shop, a sports team, some kind of hobby group, or a charitable organization.
Religion fading while we still need to have a third place means a lot of grifters have moved in to fill the void. So people are getting into all kinds of weirs political groups and such just to have people to hang out with. Let's all pretend we think the world is flat so we have a reason to hang out.