• Saleh@feddit.org
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    11 days ago

    In my experience, these benign people are one tragedy away from metastasizing into the malignant religious type.

    This kind of thinking and language is also used by a variety of “Anti-Theists” talking about the “Woke mind virus” and working together with current US fascism.

    Talking about people as “diseases” is a pretty good indicator of Fascist ideology and you might be more entangled by it than you think.

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      11 days ago

      I think my post makes it quite clear that I was not referring to people as diseases, I specifically said that religion is the disease. The people are victims to the disease.

      And if it isn’t also obvious, I do consider myself an anti-theist. The overall effect of religion on society is negative, and we would be better off without religion. I don’t see what this has to do with “woke mind virus” nonsense.

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        11 days ago

        Absolutely! Very well put. These people are victims and are being taken advantage of for the sake of power and control.