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minus-squareBuffalox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up106arrow-down7·1 year agoReligion is perfect for making normal people act like a bunch of sociopaths.
minus-squareArt35ian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up45arrow-down3·1 year ago” Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”
minus-squareOrphie Baby@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down2·1 year agoYou gotta source that quote, fam. I wanna know ^^
minus-squaresome_guy@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down1·1 year ago Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful Lucius Annaeus Seneca. All it took was copying the line into Google. I’m surprised how often people forget that they can do this.
minus-squareOrphie Baby@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·1 year agoYeah, but have you tried Googling that “quote” supposedly from Madonna?
minus-squareArt35ian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoI was hoping you guys might think I was clever enough to come up with it. /s
minus-squareCeruleanRuin@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28arrow-down1·1 year agoReligion is exploited by actual sociopaths to justify their behavior.
minus-squareVeganPizza69 Ⓥ@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down2·1 year ago Religion is exploited by actual sociopaths to justify their behavior. (most forms of) Religion is constructed to be exploited by actual sociopaths to justify their behavior. FTFY
minus-squareHypersapien@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26arrow-down2·1 year ago“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.” – Steven Weinberg
Religion is perfect for making normal people act like a bunch of sociopaths.
” Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”
You gotta source that quote, fam. I wanna know ^^
Lucius Annaeus Seneca. All it took was copying the line into Google. I’m surprised how often people forget that they can do this.
Yeah, but have you tried Googling that “quote” supposedly from Madonna?
I was hoping you guys might think I was clever enough to come up with it.
/s
Religion is exploited by actual sociopaths to justify their behavior.
(most forms of) Religion is constructed to be exploited by actual sociopaths to justify their behavior.
FTFY
“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.”
– Steven Weinberg