• BroBot9000@lemmy.world
    10·
    1 year ago

    “It only takes 1 generation refusing to be indoctrinated into worshipping a nonexistent fairytale that was fabricated to control the uneducated masses for the next generation to know better about religion.”

    Fixed it with help from Space_Jamke

    • Space_Jamke@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      To know better about religion*

      Patching it up some more. Stay informed and spread the news of religion’s intrinsic failings, so the next generation doesn’t repeat the mistakes of today.

    • DarkMatter_contract@lemmy.world
      0·
      1 year ago

      It used to be used for good, it is not religion or the idea of it that cause the problem. It is the people, and if these people still exist, they will just create another thing for them to exerts greed and control over the populace.

      • BroBot9000@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        … the bible literally tells you how to keep and beat your slaves. Also to kill babies.

        … Another religion worships a “god” that has an 8 year old child wife.

        It’s not evil people manipulating religion. Religion is evil.

        • TheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.ee
          1·
          1 year ago

          The problem is that what they belive in is hundreds of years old. Back when all of that was written this was perfectly acceptable and in some cases even more humane than what was practiced at that time is. The problem is that the world changed a lot and what they belive in didn’t.

  • FaeDrifter@midwest.social
    7·
    1 year ago

    Suppose we have a human extinction, and intelligent life develops all over. All religion will be gone or very different, but science will continue to make the same discoveries all over again.

    • Malgas@beehaw.org
      3·
      1 year ago

      Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.

      -Philip K. Dick

    • Zirconium@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      1·
      1 year ago

      That made me have a thought. Why do SOME (not all) Christians refuse the earth is dying or people are dying or preventable causes. Wouldn’t helping mitigate this make more people christian?

      • wanderingmagus@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 year ago

        They want the earth to die. It’s literally prophesied in their Scriptures, that the sign that their Rapture is imminent include famine, death, war, and conquest. Their explicit goal is to bring about the Second Coming, wherein so many people will be killed, their blood fills up the Armageddon up to the shoulder of a warhorse. The old heaven and old earth, our earth, will very destroyed, so that paradise can come for God’s Chosen.

        • another_lemming@lemmy.world
          0·
          1 year ago

          Not exactly? I mean you are correct to name these, but I’ve not seen them wanting it to come faster.

          I mean, some of them call out things they don’t like as sings of coming end, and they are pretty angry about it. Vaxxing being a mark of the beast is my favorite. If they were accelerating the come of their end from the scripture, they could’ve behaved like they are on Woodstock, not in American Gothic. Only doomsday sects who isolate themselves and wait for the end are really into that. Others are too occupied with their lives and earthly posessions, but do use the book when it comes handy, especially for explaining what they are up to, or what happened without their control.

          • eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            2·
            1 year ago

            Bro I lived in the south, they can’t fucking wait for the rapture down there.

            Of course if I had to live in Tuscaloosa I would also welcome the sweet bosom of the grave.

          • orcrist@lemm.ee
            1·
            1 year ago

            The claim is true for many. If you get salvation when the end comes, and you hate people who are different from you, sooner is better.

            Of course this is absurd but many believe it to some degree.

    • fsxylo@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      1 year ago

      Some people can’t imagine non religious thinking.

      Just like they neurotically interject God into every single aspect of their lives they think I’m neurotically rejecting God, when in reality I’d forget about the topic entirely if fire and brimstone hobos weren’t trying to skullfuck my country into being fire and brimstone.