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• tux0r@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Nothing’s wrong with religion. I don’t believe that Buddhists automatically make an objectively worse choice than atheists.

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  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Crystal healers, OTOH…

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    • jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Fun fact: a lot of the crystal healers i interact with are solid people.

      Nutty sure but most of them are all about emotional wellness and support and very few are okay with trump or republicans.

      It always amuses me when the people who think they’re rational and shit on the mystic groups miss out on wonderful friends and allies.

      Kind of like the 2019 campaign when everone shit on Marianne Williamson.

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      • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Oh I have friends in that group too. The problem is, I wouldn’t trust any of them to do logic and reasoning. They’re great people, but they couldn’t reason their way out of a wet paper bag.

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    • tux0r@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You do have a point.

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      • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Imagining a piece of mineral can do something is wrong, but talking to some invisible force can do something is right?

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    • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Personally, I put that kind of woo-woo in the same bucket as religion. It’s all belief in made up nonsense that is indicative of a lack of critical thinking.

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      • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Clutches crystals really firmly and sends evil thoughts your way

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      • thefactremains@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        What if I told you the problems only materialize when people tell other people what, and what not to believe?

        Pure belief and spirituality (when you remove the need for compliance and/or judgement of others) is critical for healthy evolution of humanity through personal growth.

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    • aleq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      They are powerful centers of healing though…

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  • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    There’s something wrong with outright rejecting objective reality to believe in the fantastical. Doesn’t lend itself well to rational thinking voters, exactly does it?

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    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Kinda depends on their exact beliefs. Cuckoos aside, a lot of non-extremist religious folks have views that are reasonably compatible with reality, or at least not mutually exclusive.

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      • floo@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I belief in an invisible wizard in the sky that grant wishes and subject you to eternal torture if you don’t both believe in him and love him is incompatible with reality

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    • jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You mean like running a campaign based on genocide, war hawking, and enabling corporate abuses as a democratic candidate? Yeah i was pretty baffled by that too.

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• prex@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There are two things in the world I can’t stand: people who are intolerant of other people’s cultures… and ~~ the Dutch~~ smug atheists.

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  • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Smug? No to the point and tired of humouring this nonsense any longer.

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  • CalipherJones@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Religion is a mass delusion. Christianity is a cult. Anyone taking the Bible literally is a fool. Its fairytales. Yet I’m supposed to respect grown ass adults that believe in this stuff? All ridiculous beliefs should be called out for what they are, especially when those beliefs infringe on other people.

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• grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Exactly: voting should only be done by proper God-fearing Protestant Christians! Disenfranchise those heathen atheists! \S

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