• Ech@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Again, I’m not defending the religion, just saying that blaming one thing here is missing the mountain of other contributing factors. If we erased christianity and every other religion you want gone from the world, the hate and fear would still be there, as would the people manipulating that to benefit themselves.

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      9 months ago

      If cancer were cured tomorrow people would still die eventually, but I would rather live in a world without cancer than one with it.

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        9 months ago

        Great metaphor, actually, since cancer is most often caused or exacerbated by something else. But you’re still missing my point by a mile. Keeping going after the symptom rather than the sickness, I guess. I’m sure that’ll solve everything.

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          9 months ago

          I got your point. You refuse to address the issue and instead want us all to wander around in circles finding “deeper” reasons.

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          9 months ago

          I don’t mean to be disrespectful to those who you are replying to, but are you sure those are even regular people you’re talking to, and not bots?

          Either they’re very fanatical and can’t see outside of their box, or they’re being intellectually dishonest in how they respond to you, seeming to miss your point that’s being expressed very well and straightforward.

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            9 months ago

            Eh, I don’t think so. People (understandably) hyper-focus on religion, and Christianity in particular, and the terrible things done under them, and it can be hard to get them to view the larger scope of the situation.

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            9 months ago

            Nope human. Got meat organs and everything. I love how the only defense of religion is to personally attack the guy calling out what it does