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Do memes from 1911 count if they're still true? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't think religion was ever used to control people.

Ignoring thousands of years of history where religion literally controlled people does not help the rest of your arguments. You clearly lack a wealth of knowledge on how society functions both in the past and in the now.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago

Ignoring thousands of years of history where religion literally controlled people does not help the rest of your arguments.

I'm afraid not - it's you that is blithely ignoring history. Religion has been used to justify revolt as much as - if not far more - than it has been used to justify conformity.

I guess we're beyond the point of merely calling this "edgelord atheism" now - I'd say that a better term for it would be fundamentalist atheism. And, like everything peddled by the right, it's perfectly ahistorical and essentialized.