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    it will only happen once ALL religion is banned world wide.

    fuck book worship

    Socrates was right, books ruin human memory

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      it will only happen once ALL religion is banned world wide.

      Religion isn’t the cause; settler-colonialism is. Religion is just a rationalization for the underlying cause. Removing religion won’t remove Euro-Five Eyes imperialism from West Asia.

      fuck book worship

      Never thought I’d see a liberal channeling Mao.

      Socrates was right, books ruin human memory

      You misunderstand what Socrates meant.

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        You misunderstand what Socrates meant.

        bruh

        Religion allows awful people to feel good about themselves NOTHING MORE

        of course you defend your dope hit just like any other addict.

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          of course you defend your dope hit just like any other addict

          I’m a middle-aged, life-long atheist, dumbass.

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            atheists are just as bad.

            I despise the certainty and lack of humility. you really thinking you are getting a full picture of reality is the pinnacle of hubris. But don’t let that stop you from getting that dopamine hit from not having to think for yourself. Dogma is dogma.

            To even imagine you are the culmination of evolution, rather than a link in a chain, which is what you are. There’s much more evolving to happen maybe new organs or senses…

            i believe the holiest phrase a person can utter are the words: ‘I don’t know’

            once u can utter these magic words, you can initiate a journey of learning.

            a full cup cannot be filled.

            im agnostic

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              That’s nice. Congratulations on your galaxy brain.

              But you still haven’t figured out what Socrates was talking about: the ability to exercise recall, a mental skill. He was literally talking about the capacity to store & recall information.

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                yeah well i was kinda of born too late to hang out in downtown athens and shoot shit with the boys.

                btw, he’s ALSO striking at the primacy of books.

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              There’s no such thing as pure agnosticism dumbass. Atheism, or at least soft atheism, is simply the “No.” answer to the question “Do you believe that God exists?”. Not “Does God exist?”.

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            but the elementary explanation Socrates actual meaning doesn’t?

            your vain attempt to insult me only reveals your own prejudice. and your comment says more about your character than mine.

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        Thing is, religion is perfect justification. The Jews are God’s chosen people, obviously they should get the land their forefathers lived on. It literally comes from an authority higher than ANY human organization.

        Of course, Muslims will say that their version of the same God has different opinions. And Christians will have a third opinion (or a ton of them really). But it doesn’t matter. Only your version matters. And if God says it’s OK to kill gentiles, infidels, pagans, whatever and take their land, who are WE to question his supreme authority anyway? Profane authority is illegitimate in the eyes of true believers.

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      Religion conforms to the ideas of the ruling class, not the other way around. Historically, religious aristocracy may become a class of its own with enough political power to challenge a ruling class, but they often have little reason to do so when they’re already part of the club, so to speak, and even when that happens, the religion conforms to the ideas of the new ruling class. The evolution of Christian canon and its various schisms throughout history immediately jump out as an example to me cause I was raised a good christian boy.

      This goes both ways, however. There’s no shortage of examples of class struggle under a religious banner. From Protestant Europe, to Colonial Haiti to Qing-Era China.

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        Religion are weaponizing like many other things. The root cause is human fundamental bad aspects like greed. The palestinian cause is generally a cause for liberation from opression not for defending a religion. Even the Zionist leaders was not religious and many secular country is still supporting Israel