You shouldnt be concerned about socialism. Socialism doesnt make laws. People make laws.
Sigh. You are conflating again. We aren’t talking about communism. We are talking about how you feel religion is being forced on you.
Sigh. I was responding to your logic that “religion doesnt make laws, people make laws” to rationalize not being concerned about religion. This conversation is hopeless.
No, he is not. You are. He never said “beliefs” were being forced on him as if he was required to believe what you believe.
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It usually is, unless you’re just bored to death.
You haven’t made the case that religion is being forced on you.
My theory is humans are the only animal to be aware of their upcoming death. In order to cope with such a heavy thought, people figured well, we just don’t die, there’s gotta be something!
A side benefit of people thinking they don’t really die is formation of cool clubs.
Most of these clubs use eternal life as the carrot to join them, plus a little cash wouldn’t hurt to help spread the word to keep people from ever dying, is it?
These clubs can provide a pretty nifty living by simply “spreading the word”, if one is in possession of the gift of gab.
You don’t ever die. The one who you paid keeps telling you don’t ever die. You die happy. They die rich. Everybody wins!
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Yep it also comes in handy when you need others to fight and die for you.
religions were created and are still clung too because people want desperately to believe that they will see mommy (or someone) again.
But yeah, predators like Joel Osteen and others use that to manipulate and rip people off.
Organized religion is the devil.
Correctomundo!
But I was trying to keep to the topic of why people made them up.
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And that is why, over the years, people of faith have rightfully become suspicious of civil leaders who say we are doing something for God. We realize we are a ready-made community that others might wish to persuade, use, or control.
It’s also why we have Islamic terror
Not necessarily. However, it does seem to attract predators, and everyone a part of organized religion needs to be vigilant. We were warned of this at least two thousand years ago.
This is so historically untrue it’s not even funny.
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It’s not really the religion–rather it is the power and wealth and territory predators want and so use religion as a way of gaining these things.
Sure we were.
I am pointing to what history has taught us.
The dichotomy you keep attemtping to create here is completely artificial.
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No you’re not.
How so?
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