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Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 2 days agoI don't see the difference between your last paragraph and banning believing. To me, you can ban hate crime but you can't ban bad morals, so you can't ban beliefs because it's just a disguise for the morals doing the talking. Hold morals accountable, not an arbitrary abstraction. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_anarchism.
SnoopSqueak@lemmy.today 2 days ago
I literally can’t control what people think, correct.
You got it backwards. We are all morally obliged to align our beliefs with reality because mistakes can cost lives. I don’t have to ban belief. I have to educate whoever is willing to listen to reason. It is in everyone’s best interests for everyone to believe in the reality we share. All our lives depend on it.
People like my father are proudly exercising their right to be wrong, to accept claims with no evidence, and their choices as a direct result of their magical thinking have directly led to abuse. No one should be okay with parents abusing their children because they believe in magic, but it is cheered here in the bible belt. I think people are underestimating how harmful these beliefs are.
Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 5 hours ago
I'll agree with that. But I disagree with the targetting of religion as "these beliefs". Domestic violence is famously high in atheist China. Religion is just aesthetic window-dressing and creates both bad and good.