• yesman@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    The paradox of being an antitheist is that you have to believe that religious ideas are uniquely powerful and dangerous. Politics, history, culture, and all context are just debris drifting in the mighty river of religion.

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      3 months ago

      No I don’t, I just have to think religion is one of the levers of control the powerful use to control the hopeless and gullible.

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      3 months ago

      Its not so much religious ideals but moreso tribalist dogma that’s uniquely dangerous. Religion just so happens to be the particular tribalist dogma we’re talking about here.