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IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 3 days ago
I look at it this way in terms of spirituallity… (Aka psychopath minded religion excluded.)
Kids has 1 arm.
Community that doesn’t have the means or knowledge for science helps promote hope and faith that’s keeps the kid going.
Science does it’s thing, as it always has and creates an arm.
Kid is able to get the new arm because the community and faith helped keep his spirits up so he didn’t suicide out of hopelessness.
…The real enemy is the marketing and psychological manipulation tainting everything. It’s not just religions. It’s rapes everything for all that it can benefit from.
Why not foster hope through science? Religion is unneeded for that.
Plus, if the situation was hopeless scientifically, the kid would be better off accepting reality than to endlessly hope for something that will never come. Just build with what he can instead of daydreaming about what can’t be.
Photonic@lemmy.world 3 days ago
All major religions have people doing stuff that is to the benefit of the higher-ups in the religion and is to the disadvantage to the common believer.
But you’re right, it also happens outside of religion, like with capitalism and billionaires vs the working class.
Religion is just a means to keep the plebs from revolting.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Is all the charity that Christianity alone has done also to the disadvantage to the common believer?
Photonic@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Haha yes. In the greater scheme of things it definitely is. The Christian higher-ups rake in way more money than they spend on charity. Churches are often exempt from taxes, so whatever they spend on charity would have been better spent if they simply paid their fair share to the community. Every cent they get is though lies and deceit. Charity is just a way to make themselves feel good and to uphold the image that they are Good Samaritans. Some individuals may be just that, but Christianity? Definitely no.