• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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    11 hours ago

    All religions are a form of mental illness. Religion is the greatest threat facing humanity BY FAR.

    Because even after our little temporary oil-powered blip of 8 billion people lobbing planes full of bombs at each other collapses, we’ll still keep inventing gods to disagree over.

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        10 hours ago

        The faith people have in capitalism is the same as their faith in their religion. Trump is the leader to his own religion.

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        9 hours ago

        As explained, the economics don’t matter. We seem wired to invent nonsense and hack each other to pieces because of myths.

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              8 hours ago

              I’m not even a Christian and this is a genuinely rubbish take, go and look up William Wilberforce for example.

              Edit: I feel that I really have to stress what I thought was obvious, the notion that every human being from behavioural modernity to the Enlightenment was mentally ill is so foolish on the face of it that it isn’t worth even entertaining even for the sake of argument.

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                5 hours ago

                Yes, they were. I am mentally ill too, I am depressed, I am anxious, we all have some degree of what one generation ago was a mental illness and now isn’t.

                Mental illness doesn’t mean dysfunctional or crazy, but if you have a heart surgeon that’s also a Flat Earther, what do you call that?