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Yup. They’re really good at rationalizing nice sounding bullshit to justify what they were already doing.
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Yup. They’re really good at rationalizing nice sounding bullshit to justify what they were already doing.
My condolences. It’s such a stupid, dangerous, and exploitative practice.
In my former religion, it was 2 years in a foreign country. I’m lucky many of my family members came back alive, given the places they were sent. They “laugh” about stories of being assaulted, robbed, houses broken into, extorted and threatened, but it’s a joke now because it’s all part of “gods plan”
So disgusting.
(Edit: It’s also a way to make sure that they face stress and doubt away from any resources that might help them out of the abuse. Instead they’re at all times with another cult member tasked with keeping them on the straight and narrow. It’s more a 2 year indoctrination session where the member gets exposed to anti-religious views through aggressive proselytizing, but then is forced to work through that alternate view in a directed and monitored way so that they reach the “right” conclusion. When they get back, they’re so much more incredibly difficult to have a conversation with, because they’ve entrenched all the bullshit)
Oh you think the blues are voting in their best interest?
I have a bridge to sell you, btw. Real good bridge. Hmu in dms
The merchants have always run the temple
So all efforts to cure cancer are in direct opposition to the will of god?
…thought I was making a joke, but now I’m worried
Shoot, pay me enough money and I’ll dress up and say “I’m back!”
Well first you’d have to get the government to stop trying to manipulate people for power in the same way
Even agreeing with that I am pretty anti all that religious bullshit these days so I’ll often go by atheist, but you’re damn right it isn’t the whole of my identity or that of anyone else who isn’t religious.
Let’s get to the point where we categorize people by humanist, individualist, tribalist, or cultist dipshit and see how they all like being called a-rationals
And sadsacks is just a term for people who don’t study the perfect life form: unicorns!
Defining someone by the negation of their oppressors label is pretty fucking offensive.
It’d be like calling native Americans the NotWhites. It defines them by a metric they didn’t care about.
Not really. More like coming out as Human (as opposed to those who’ve deluded themselves into believing they are more than that)
Sounds about right
Religions actively encourage harassing “questioning” family members
Exactly. Atheism is the label cults use to pretend not believing in bullshit is just “another belief” like their believing in bullshit
Or like believing in Santa clause when you’re 73
You too!?
Always had trouble deluding myself, even when I tried.
Till I realized that’s what I was doing, anyway.
Probably is.
As someone who was raised in a cult, having voices willing to publicly challenge the orthodoxy does way more than it appears to unplug people and get them to acknowledge the abuse
They’re always trying to convert you
“Planting seeds” and all that
Stop pretending people who still believe in Santa clause have or even follow any sort of moral high ground
Destroy and replace, to turn our brains into running simulations of the chosen deity.
Essentially, religions try to turn their members into components of The Matrix
That’s so weird. Here I am thinking being religious should disqualify you automatically from public office!
I mean, at least an atheist isn’t specifically putting some made up bullshit ahead of their constituents.
Wait… does that mean we can take out anti-religion ads?
I mean, if you try to do that to Islam it’s a hate crime, but maybe we could get away with it targeting a paler demographic
Not the lies, theft, manipulation, and indoctrination of children?
Well, at least something gets them to wake the fuck up