• RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    There are billions of people privately practicing/ believing their religion and not bothering you with it, while there are only a couple thousand of institutions/ powerful people using it to abuse people.

    Religions should be left out of politics, but people are still allowed to say/ believe what they want in their own space. (I’m not religious btw)

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      9 months ago

      It’s those billions of people quietly using their votes to put people in power who make life harder for so many people.

      Religion should be left out of politics, but rarely ever is because all those religious people want their religion to inform political decisions. And that’s true whether they admit it or not.

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        9 months ago

        Again, “all those religious people” keep religion out of politics in most cases. You’re thinking of the loud minority.

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            9 months ago

            From the minority? Are you having trouble reading? It’s okay I’ll explain it again, education is hard to come by these days.

            If you take the US for example, if all religious people were diehard people trying to replace your rights with the word of god, you’d have a dominant conservative majority every year. The minority is exactly the small group of conservatives who are trying to use religion to fire up their base.

            The truth is more than 75% of people are religious in the US, but only a minority use it to support draconic policies from the right. A lot of them are democrats or other not bothering you with their beliefs, and leaving it out of politics. You’re confusing all religious people and religious institutions/groups.

            +80% of people on earth are religious. Thats 58,000 million people…if they all used their beliefs to dictate policy we’d be back to the middle ages.

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            9 months ago

            Lmao, Roe v Wade was overturned by a conservative supreme court, with a crooked republican party using the religious minority to gain support, not by a popular vote. Tell me you don’t know what you’re talking about without telling you don’t know what you’re talking about.

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      9 months ago

      I think most religious people are victims themselves. Problem is they don’t realize it, so they just perpetuate it and the cycle continues.

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      9 months ago

      Not everyone needs to be a religious bigot, they just need to be apathetic.

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        9 months ago

        You’re saying I’m not an atheist either? How did you conclude that inspector Clouseau?

        What I think other’s are allowed to believe in has nothing to do with what I believe in. Why wouldn’t I be an atheist? Why can’t I be an atheist and let people believe in what they want at the same time?