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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The fuck is wrong with this world?

Religion.

Ok maybe not all of it, and not all religious people. Kinda like how #metoo wasn't actually about all men, just the problematic ones. When I say religion is what's wrong with the world I'm not talking about memaw going to church on Sunday. I'm talking about people fucking people blowing each other up in the furtherance of what they perceive to be some divine goal.

Sure, the type of person to feverishly go to war over some stories would probably be extremely opinionated without religion, but you don't see anyone going down to the fucking Renaissance faire with a rifle because of the guys dressed as pirates.

Believing things strongly isn't the problem. It's the system of organized moral superiority that's the problem.