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Ive also traveled all over the planet and see versions of Christianity-lite or “Islam-lite”.

It’s still mental cancer. Believing in an imaginary sky god in 2020 is a mental health crisis. It’s absolutely absurd.

The scientologists who think that life was seeded by aliens have more to stand on than Christians do.

You can’t even have a rational debate with a religious person because they will just fall back on “faith”

Let's be more generous with the opposing position. If, as been argued, we're religious by nature (which the worldwide spread of different, often contradictory, beliefs amply demonstrates), religion is not a mental cancer, and belief in X is not a mental crisis.

Like our innate tribalist tendency of viewing the whole world as an unending conflict between us and them, we, modern humans, must try to find solutions that take those characteristics in consideration, not pretend they do not exist.

It's no one fault to have a religious tendency. There's no bad faith in being a believer.

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