Your experience is not universal. There are forms of religion very different from, and much less politically powerful than, American fundamentalism. It doesn’t make me uncomfortable to call out specific abusive forms of worship, I just don’t think that’s what you’re doing. You said you think all religions should end because none are worthy of existence. I think that’s a hateful thing to say. Lots of marginalized religious groups have been violently suppressed or had people attempt to wipe them out in some way. How dies repeating that argument help make the world better? Fight specifically against the actual group who hurt you. But don’t lump in millions of people you know nothing about and assume they are all exactly the same. The world is more complicated than that.
There is not a single thing that a religion does to help people that is irreplaceable with non-parasitic communal structures.
What religion does beyond helping people is leech off of superstition and ignorance to control and coerce its adherents into its modes.
If a religion is free of superstition it ceases to be a religion: requiring no faith.
Cultural practices are beautiful and deserve preservation - religions are shackles that keep those marginalized people we care about enslaved to the past.
To call my statements unnuanced is patently false. Unnuanced is your assertion that getting rid of religion is genocidal.
You consistently conflate religion and culture and act as though a group that lets their religion die has somehow had a genocide committed against them.
The death of a religion is not the death of the culture and genocide has no role my desire for the extinction of the dark and superstitious past that we are in the process of leaving.
Your experience is not universal. There are forms of religion very different from, and much less politically powerful than, American fundamentalism. It doesn’t make me uncomfortable to call out specific abusive forms of worship, I just don’t think that’s what you’re doing. You said you think all religions should end because none are worthy of existence. I think that’s a hateful thing to say. Lots of marginalized religious groups have been violently suppressed or had people attempt to wipe them out in some way. How dies repeating that argument help make the world better? Fight specifically against the actual group who hurt you. But don’t lump in millions of people you know nothing about and assume they are all exactly the same. The world is more complicated than that.
There is not a single thing that a religion does to help people that is irreplaceable with non-parasitic communal structures.
What religion does beyond helping people is leech off of superstition and ignorance to control and coerce its adherents into its modes.
If a religion is free of superstition it ceases to be a religion: requiring no faith.
Cultural practices are beautiful and deserve preservation - religions are shackles that keep those marginalized people we care about enslaved to the past.
Religion as a concept is evil.
So you traded one kind of nuance-less fundamentalism for another. That sounds comforting.
To call my statements unnuanced is patently false. Unnuanced is your assertion that getting rid of religion is genocidal.
You consistently conflate religion and culture and act as though a group that lets their religion die has somehow had a genocide committed against them.
The death of a religion is not the death of the culture and genocide has no role my desire for the extinction of the dark and superstitious past that we are in the process of leaving.