DominatorX1@thelemmy.club to Atheism@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 days agoWhat is the problem with religion?message-squaremessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up1-1arrow-down1message-squareWhat is the problem with religion?DominatorX1@thelemmy.club to Atheism@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 days agomessage-square21fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareAbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·11 days agoWho knows? Is it the violence with which religions have tried (and still try) to impose their beliefs on others? Maybe the way they treat anyone who’s not in their group? Maybe how the want you to live by their values even if you are not religious? Perhaps the way they are about power rather than making people happy? It could be the way some of them enable child rapists? I guess we’ll never know.
minus-squareDominatorX1@thelemmy.clubOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down16·11 days ago“some” may be applied to any of those. And any of those may apply to the nonreligious too. So venture something more precise.
minus-squareAbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·11 days agoThen you’ll need to be more precise about what religion are you talking about.
Who knows?
Is it the violence with which religions have tried (and still try) to impose their beliefs on others?
Maybe the way they treat anyone who’s not in their group?
Maybe how the want you to live by their values even if you are not religious?
Perhaps the way they are about power rather than making people happy?
It could be the way some of them enable child rapists?
I guess we’ll never know.
“some” may be applied to any of those. And any of those may apply to the nonreligious too.
So venture something more precise.
Then you’ll need to be more precise about what religion are you talking about.