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Lol someone's pissy.
I know your position, and share much of it. But I've also grown enough to learn that religions exist in many forms, many are cults and evil, but blaming the issues in Palestine on religion is a childish diversion. They were choosing between that and fucking Argentina when deciding where to found Israel and felt it more important to have a foothold in the middle east.
Religion was the excuse.
Great response
Madagascar was also on the short list.
In the 70s the Nixon administration worked with celebrity megachurch pastors to manufacture abortion as a wedge issue and guarentee a loyal voterbase for the Republican party, as they saw their support from conservatives and liberal democrats dwindling in the face of the Vietnam war.
This practice continued under Reagan, he started attempting to defund churches not pushing anti abortion rhetoric.
This continued for 20 or so years until today, where American Christians collectively support the Nazi party.
Religon is always the probelm, it's a control mechanism from thousands of years ago that is no longer necessary in our society, but this dangerous tool is just left lying around for any con man to take advantage of.
Colonizer mindset
And what is yours? A slave mindset?
Organized religion should be banned. If you want to talk to Sky Daddy, do it in your own home, stop organizing and ruining our societies please!
Kiddo I am an atheist, settle down.
Probably stop playing devils advocate then
It's not devils advocate if I just disagree with you.
You must be a huge fan of Mao and Stalin.
Religion is not required, it just helps things go faster.
Faster than Mao and Stalin?
Certain conditions apply.
You must be a huge fan of deepthroating boot
I hecking love "reeducation" camps for religious people!
*Ignoring the fact religious people indoctrinate their children with rightthink without them being able to consent
They should be indoctrinated with your ideology instead!
Or they shouldn't be indoctrinated at all but just nurtured and taught? I mean, I get both your positions but we have to face the fact that religions ask their followers blind devotion to their principles without providing proof or logical reasoning, while schools, families and societies usually are able to explain the reasons why certain things are done in certain ways (usually for the common good).
Why should we keep on sending kids to education camps like after school christian classes? Here in Italy we have loads of pupils being taught christianity because "everybody goes to catechismo" (n.b. catechismo Is the name given to these education classes where you are taught how christianity is the only true religion and everybody else is wrong about their gods and beliefs), it should be high time that these would be eliminated in favour of a more general education about religions at 360°. Children should be taught about christianity, islam, buddhismo, zoroastrismo, paganism and all belief systems to understand why they exist and which role they occupy in our lives. This or we can continue with the standard indoctrination because removing it would be harmful against the indoctrination itself as you messages suggest