• SnoopSqueak@lemmy.today
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    12 days ago

    We can and should get all of those benefits without the magical thinking. I wish people would stop tolerating literal death cults.

    • Salvo@aussie.zone
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      6 days ago

      Religion is very good at helping simple minded people find a community. And you can’t get much more simple-minded that the GenZ kids that cannot think without using a GenBS.

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      12 days ago

      The problem is some young men probably aren’t getting those benefits and so… religious-like influences (rs). The article does say that young men are not necessarily going back to traditional religions.

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      12 days ago

      You don’t need to engage with the “magical thinking” bit. That’s a misconception people have based on their own negative, or lack of, experience with organised religion. Some groups are very laid back and open, and don’t care at all whether you have theist beliefs. If you’re there to participate in good faith and with respect then they will welcome you no matter what.

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        11 days ago

        “Some groups are very laid back and open, and don’t care at all whether you have theist beliefs”

        Yes, some people are fatally stupid. We should correct that as soon as possible, all lives are at stake.

      • SnoopSqueak@lemmy.today
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        11 days ago

        STOP DEFENDING DEATH CULTS. No one needs superstition. The placebo effect can be gained from reality. The “good ones” are still normalizing casual lying for everybody. Please grow up, your selfish stupidity is killing people.

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          11 days ago

          In your blind rage you seem to have missed the bit where I said you don’t need to have theist beliefs to participate or benefit. The world doesn’t revolve around you and your negative experience.