Anonymous #2 2w

Why are you even thinking so much about what other people do during a service you are not part of?

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Anonymous cheesepussy 2w

Because it directly affects this country and every country. Plenty of idiots might think that not washing your hands is there personal right and choice but it’s disgusting and spreads diseases.

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Anonymous #2 2w

I promise you the things you find weird about Catholicism are not the reason this country is going to shit

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Anonymous cheesepussy 2w

You mean the descent into christofascism has nothing to do with why this country is going to shit? lol ok

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Anonymous #2 2w

Most of the Catholics in this country swing liberal lmao you’re just making a fool out of yourself

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Anonymous cheesepussy 2w

Who said this was exclusively about Catholics?

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Anonymous #2 2w

You’re describing a part of Catholic mass that only (some) Catholics believe is more than a symbolic gesture

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Anonymous #2 2w

Statistically speaking, your beef is with evangelical protestants, most of whom don’t even do communion lmao

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Anonymous cheesepussy 2w

1. Most Protestants I know absolutely do communion, 2. All religions are ridiculous that’s my point

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 2w

THANK YOU this person has no clue what they’re fucking talking about

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Anonymous #2 2w

You didn’t even read what I said

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Anonymous cheesepussy 2w

Really? I guess you’ve been every Protestant church then as a catholic?

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Anonymous #2 2w

Just because Protestants DO communion doesn’t mean they believe it’s something literal, only Catholics do and even then probably not even the majority

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Anonymous #2 2w

No I’ve just done actual research instead of “ALL RELIGION IS BAD”

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Anonymous cheesepussy 2w

It is, any false belief is bad and actively harmful in many cases

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Anonymous cheesepussy 2w

Notice how the original post also says “symbolically” :)

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Anonymous #2 2w

You don’t have any more confidence in saying religion is inherently false than anyone else has in saying it’s true

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Ok wasn’t my claim. I don’t care how many people stake it symbolically or literally. It’s all just a cult no matter what brand

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Anonymous #2 2w

Well a lot of mainline protestants do communion, but not all of them, and certainly not most Evangelicals. Mainline and Evangelical Protestantism are distinct from each other. And Evangelicals tend to be the far right wing ones.

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Anonymous cheesepussy 2w

Yes, because there is zero empirical evidence for it (and countless for the opposite)

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Anonymous #2 2w

There’s no empirical evidence for the thing that is actually impossible to prove or disprove? Wow, what a shock.

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Anonymous #2 2w

I mean I’m an atheist too, and I think the bit about you needing to touch grass was more about your demeanor and way of presenting those opinions than it is about whether or not religion is *right*

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 2w

I mean you don’t arrive at “ALL RELIGION IS BAD AND CULTISH AND EVIL” without being desperately in need of a real life

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 2w

Well there would be empirical evidence if any of the modern religions got it right. I suppose if god created the universe and then did nothing he could exist. But then that god is as useful and a nonexistent one and we are back to square one.

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Anonymous #2 2w

*as useful as

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Anonymous #2 2w

I mean yeah, you’re preaching to the choir buddy, but you talk about religious people like I did at 13 when I first left the church, which was the point of the original post. Not that atheism in itself is wrong, but that this smugness about it is counterproductive rhetorically and just generally off-putting.

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Anonymous cheesepussy 2w

I mean being tortured by this mental idiocy my whole life definitely lead me to this conclusion. I’m glad you were able to have more accepting experiences with religion but you appear to have deluded yourself

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 2w

It’s time to be smug, we are out of time being passive to people who believe in leprechauns and hobgoblins

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Anonymous #2 2w

Smugness is absolutely still passivity, it’s just passive aggression. Unless you’re organizing people around you, some of whom are going to be religious, which is why I advocate extending those people some grace as long as they’re not immediately politically reactionary about it, for resistance to the authoritarian forces using religion as their vehicle, you’re just being a passive asshole instead of being passive and nice. Which benefits nobody except your own ego.

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You aren’t sorry if you continue to stick up for them. You are just as complicit and you disgust me

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 2w

Organizing with abusers and idiots is not my idea of organization

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You are right, because he objectively no longer exists. He was a historical person who is dead

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Anonymous #2 2w

I’m not saying I disagree with your conclusions or opinions, I’m criticizing your rhetoric and uncharitable statements about religion and religious people. And we’re not gonna win by alienating the majority of people. Plenty of religious people are reasonable and down for the good fight, I know Christians who abide by Liberation Theology and have revolutionary leftist positions, I’m not about to shit on them for believing in God if we’re both fighting the good fight. Which is why I’m not smug.

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 2w

And I’m not going to disparage them, but if I’m speaking about my views, I will not sugarcoat them. I think it is a system of abuse and control that I want entirely eradicated from the face of the earth like a cancer

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Anonymous #2 2w

This is why I can’t take you seriously

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Anonymous #2 2w

And the people who stick up for it even in its most diluted form, are contributing to its continued foothold in society

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Anonymous #2 2w

These blanket statements about EVERY religion are just ridiculous and show not only a lot of arrogance but a lot of immaturity

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Anonymous cheesepussy 2w

Immaturity is one who thinks all ideas should be treated with respect

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Anonymous #2 2w

That’s literally the opposite of what you’re saying

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