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What are some semi conflicting beliefs you hold at the same time? I’ll go first 1. saying the n word is racist 2. SOME people use the word in a weird republican social signaling way, not exactly intending to be hateful
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Anonymous 20w

I’m a very staunch atheist who is very progressive. But I also get sad at the decline of rare religions like samaritanism, Mandaeism, Zoroastrianism. I guess it’s because I tend to really like cultural diversity and for the case of ethnoreligions said religion is the culture. But it also feels like my love of folk culture is at odds with my staunch progressivism.

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Anonymous 20w

Its something you wouldn’t get unless you live in the south, but i know of many people who have (at least seemingly) really great friendships with several black people but use the word around friends almost literally to social signal that theyre republican. its weird. same thing happens with the word retard3d. surprisingly tho the f slur is almost never used in this way. i see that one primarily used hatefuly and when theyre mad

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Anonymous 20w

Issues that impact small bodies of people are important (ie trans women in pro sports) As long as dem candidates die on the hill of those issues they will continue to lose traction with the 99.99% of voters who those issues will never impact

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 20w

I think I saw this as like a YouTube comment but it stuck with me. Southern Republicans hate black people as a concept but love individual black people. Whereas northern liberals like black people as a concept but avoid them whenever possible.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 20w

i agree. this is also kind of unrelated but ironically the most stereotypically republican person i know, a truck driving, country song loving, major ben Shapiro fan…. is a black family member of mine who lives up north? its strange

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 20w

yooooooo. im this as well, except i choose to believe in smth just not a mainstream religion. i take what i like of each of them, and to not get too fantastical with it i keep it all grounded in what cant be disproven by science. so if i had to put a label on it it’d be pantheism or Spinoza’s god

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 20w

but its crazy how india has some of the most beautiful religious practices ever. zoroastrianism’s death ritual with the birds and the sacredness of the elements, sikhism with the dagger for justice and the not cutting hair, buddism in general and ofc reincarnation. just so cool. do u get into how sociology intertwines with a religion’s formation at all? like how gods tend to be similar in desert regions vs tropical ones, how the history, geography, and social situations a religion came about i

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 20w

in can almost entirely predict the way the religion describes god

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 20w

I find religions really interesting but I’m house familiar with a geographical trend

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 20w

*not familiar

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 20w

I think it’s kind of cool how Zoroastrianism in India intersects with vulture conservation. Because the decline of vulture populations in India due to cattle medications that poison them has harmed Zoroastrian funerary practices, because they need vultures to eat the dead

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