Comment on Republican Senator callously says 'biblically, we are supposed to work' to millions set to lose health care

• andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m not a Christian.

  The Epic of Gilgamesh is fiction too, but it’s useful in understanding Mesopotamian society.

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  • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Cool bud, I don’t want nor care to understand them. This isn’t about ancient cultures. This is about modern day and how people utilize their mythology to oppress minorities and women. They, and their stupid collection of fairy tales, need to fuck off and shove their shitty excuses for their shitty behavior up their fucking ass.

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    • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So there’s no reason in understanding the ideology that people are using to oppress people? We should refuse to learn more and just say “nah it’s stupid” because we don’t agree with it?

      Ignorance is not something to be proud of.

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      • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yes, there is no merit in understanding the nonsensical logic of religious dogma. Their logic is all the same circular logic of “God says so, cause it’s in the book, that I know is true, cause God said so in the book.”

        Instead, we should be understanding human psychology and what drives people to believe in the superstitious and trap themselves in fallacious logic while dismantling the current institutions that abuse this flaw of human psych for their own selfish ends.

        The reason they can use it to oppress people is because people give it legitimacy and treat it as a valid belief instead of the superstitious nonsense that it is. Th

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