These aren’t even things you can find a direct source or wiki article on. At least op has concrete evidence/admission of their shit happening.
This is just mental masturbation right here. You are a conspiracy theorist.
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Fuck sake, I was at least expecting some sparring on the topic.
You are illiterate and I hope you get better 😘
As another comment said this is a fallacy. This detracts from my original argument, and assumes I stated any of this in my main point. If you have questions about the argument ask questions about the direct things I said in my argument. Not shit I did not say an inkling about. Your making assumptions on positions I do not have.
Let me bite for the sake of biting.
Now if I take your loaded question as a claim, I would like a source for the hasty generalization “atheists/modernists/disenchanted are pretty much either irrelevant or clinging desperately to their position of vaning power, paralyzed, and often depressed” Part. Show me the stats.
“Religious and spiritual people are the drivers of mainstream politics and new political ideologies” That is sooo rich. Religious people have been at the front lines of halting progress across the spectrum. I guess you are right they are the drivers of mainstream political change, not good political change might I add. Whenever they do change for the good it’s because real progressives fought tooth and nail to change it on a state level. Only then do these churches catch up, and even then you have members that don’t agree/believe in the change. Some key examples of movements religions have been heinous on: Woman’s suffrage, Slavery Abolitionism, Abortion, LGBTQIA+ rights, Gaza, Access contraception/sex education, the list goes fucking on and on. Don’t even get me started on the dark money organized religions put in to get vile legislation passed.
I’m not trying to assume anything but the way you throw depression in the mix puts a bad taste in my mouth. Like it has anything to do with the other things you stated, religious people are depressed too. It isn’t secularist exclusive. The way religion handles depression is “deal with it god knew you could handle it”, “that’s not depression it’s the devil”, or even the more extreme “depression/suicide is a sin”. So if depressed religious people aren’t coming out and talking about their mental health all to often compared to atheists it doesn’t surprise me. I’ll give you a chance to correct the record and we can move on, as I do not want to detract from our argument.
Religions allow for people to discriminate just on the premise of “well it’s what I believe”. They think because it’s their belief it doesn’t have to be demonstrated or tested. Why is your religion/belief true? “Because my ancient text of choice says it’s true” ok well why is your religious text of choice true? “Because my religion/belief says it’s true”.
“Existential belief/claim in delusion with no evidence or basis in reality; A tool for the rich to exploit and sedate the masses.” That’s what I hope to change the definition to when people wake up. Obviously since definitions are descriptive and not prescriptive that isn’t what it is now. “An organized supernatural belief in a god/gods in regard to the creation of the universe.” Is what I would assume more fits how people use the word today. Even then I feel that excludes delusions such as Buddhism or individual ‘spiritual’ delusions.
Skip to your proselytizing, what delusion are you Pascal’s wagering your life on?
Religious people are one the biggest reasons as to why we are where we are today. Anyone that tries to “respect” these delusions are also culpable. It’s the best invention to sedate the masses in their cage since sliced manna.
Krita is open source why the hell would you uninstall it?
Do you want psychopass? Cause this is how you get psychopass.
Fair point, but there are certain conspiracies that just flood the zone. If anything I feel they aid the very intitutions they try to fight against.
However, I also do not want to participate in the constant barrage of mudslinging our media throws at working people endlessly. At the end of the day if it gets people hating the right institutions for the right reasons 🤷.