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What I find most absurd in all of this is the utter stupidity of beliefs in entirely man made fairytales that have been causing nonstop wars for the past few thousand years.

Maybe eventually, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Mormonism, and any other gullible belief systems in fake sky people, written by total nutcases 1k+ years ago and miraculously still followed today, will end. Believing that you're somehow superior to the other faction of people based on your beliefs in false Gods is so laughable that it borders on showing that all humanity is largely insane. I find it absolutely baffling that you can read any of these ancient texts and do much more than laugh your fucking ass off. Where is God? Why would he have you launching rockets at innocent civilians over what amounts to gang turf wars for phony belief systems.

Nothing I said here was racist before anyone even starts. Religion is fake bullshit. Abolish religion, and you free the people to the reality of the universe. God is dead. You fight for no reason other than your murderous nature to want to kill. All sides. Any nation. Religion is man made, man written, has no basis in any reality, and is cult-personality total insanity.

Religious flamewar will get you banned here. Please don't do this again.

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> Abolish religion, and you free the people to the reality of the universe.

You'd be better off abolishing politics/politicians[1]: religion is but one way of "othering". Religion/sectarianism is only a hot-button issue because it serves hard-liner politicians well on both sides of any conflict/blood-feud

1. Good luck with that! Especially when politicians make the laws.

Abolish those as well, as the nationalism is also a crock of zealot-religious bs. In America, we have lost religion and instead many now feel the need to jump into identity politics. This mentality is disgusting and very small minded tribalism. It's inherent in human nature and we still share so much of that earlier hominid brain.

It's not about the literal beliefs of religions. It's about having a 'tribe' or in-group. That was helpful to our survival as a species, and that instinct has not gone away. If it's not religion, it's political ideology, national identity, ethnicity, or allegiance to a football team. We love defining the world in terms of 'us' and 'others.' The trick is in finding a way to live (and dare I say work) in proximity with 'others.'

The nazis were not especially religious in nature. And russian communists were specifically anti-religious.

It's a similar premise in the fact that each of these systems, whether it be religion, political ideology, or a cult personality all require mindless and low IQ followers to work.

Religion made sense back in the day. Life was hard and short, and we didn't know what would happen afterwards. Today, people work their butts off because they know (hope) they'll be able to enjoy life in retirement - back then, people endured life hoping that they'd enjoy afterlife.

"Working our butts off" for the future hope of a payoff after retirement and after our bodies have lost all our vitality is as big a scam as all religions. It keeps the coffers lined, keeps people head down, and it's nothing but a lie. All people should be able to live free of slavery and not be duped into believing all this office work 50 hours a week ends in some magical, mystical payoff. It doesn't. I've known a TON of people who died right after retirement, and who can't do anything they wanted to do after retirement as they're too damn worn down. The entire working for another company to make them profits in return for a paltry little barely livable wage, is a scam.

But, but... Si Dieu n’existait pas, il faudrait l’inventer.

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