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• SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The issue isn’t being religious, it is demanding everyone else be too.

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  • theherk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It kind of is to some extent. Believing stories like this requires a certain degree of ignorance.

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    • Raiderkev@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Why do you think a good chunk of these people wear red hats?

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    • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There is a difference between intellectual intelligence and emotional. People have needs that intellectual responses don’t satisfy such as “what happens to us after death?”, “how do I deal with the loss of a loved one?”, “does anyone care about me?”, “is there more to the universe than just random chance?”, etc.

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      • theherk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I get that. And believies can’t be based on reason. They’re just there. But it does generally require the ignoring of facts about the world around us. Like the same thing happens after death as before birth. You deal with loss by grieving. I don’t think they’re stupid, just regularly ignoring the simple answers to those questions.

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  • piranhaconda@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But they gotta save us from eternal damnation, it’s for our own good, we don’t know any better (/s if it’s really needed)

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    • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Anyone else believing differently plants a seed of doubt in their minds that drives them mad.

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      • biofaust@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I wish! I would be happy to be their Lovecraftian abyss.

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  • biofaust@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No, the problem is accepting uncritically anything that comes from a self-defined leader, and, even in the absence of that, accepting that any critical input in a social system should come from people that have compromised on logic and reason at some level.

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