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    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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      Old Reddit New Atheist brainworms lead so many to believe that they couldn’t be reactionary bitter old fucks because they were atheists, and being atheists was a free pass for anything else they believed because at least they weren’t religious zealots…

      Until they were anyway, “cultural” or “Tradcath” or otherwise. peterson-sus

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      He’d rather wage culture war and encourage gammons to wage race war on his behalf than pay child support. Or go to therapy.

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      Reminds me of those anti-suffragette propaganda posters from about a century ago that warned that if women got the right to vote that they’d practice witchcraft and destroy capitalism. waow-based

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    It’s a pretty common take that lack of religions causes whatever problems you want to point to. It’s funny hearing it from the brain genius himself like it’s some revolutionary take that nobody else has thought of.

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      It’s such a common take that I’ve see it here, usually something like “obviously religion is why we have endless war” with the implication that if only everyone was atheist with no other changes wars would disappear in a cloud of euphoria.

      EDIT: I misread your post, but while standing by what I said, I also agree that it’s pretty common to blame lack of religion for whatever societal problems the religion enjoyer wants to blame.

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      Not just lack of religion. Anything but the mainstream also gets pointed to. If you’re from one or more “pagan” religions (e.g., luciferianism, satanism, hermeticism, wicca, göetia, neo-hellenism, gnosticism, umbanda/kimbanda/candomblé, new age, or simply a free non-conformist esoteric/occult person as I am as a worshipper of the Dark Mother Goddess), most people tend (not everyone, so it’s not a generalized rule) to have a suspicious look at ya, even atheists (again, no intention of generalize here). I’m saying that because I was once an atheist, I was once christian and now I’m a “pagan” person, and I’ve been noticing the religious biases of the society against esoteric beliefs. For example, in my country, a syncretic Kimbanda temple tried to raise a statue for Lucifer, the light-bringer (Lux ferre), and the city hall stopped the temple of rising the statue, because people saw it as something “diabolical”.

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    What country are they talking about that has the highest level of religiosity but also the highest level of wokism? The Vatican? Iran???

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      Struggling to see how you would see what the guy four seats away is doing on their phone without getting up to look. Which is a level of creepiness that I would expect of a Musk worshipper but, then again, this entire story is obviously invented for the attention of wholesome 100 chungus Musk-senpai

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        Reminds me of when a chud claims to have personally seen someone pay for a cartload of lobster and steaks with their food assistance card, then take it to their Cadillac while talking on their iPhone.

        Like they all repeat this same story verbatim, so it’s obvious they’re talking out of their ass and making shit up, but they’re also low-key admitting that they stalk people from the supermarket to their car.

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        Struggling to see how you would see what the guy four seats away is doing on their phone without getting up to look.

        Could just be lying to boost the Meme Lord’s ego and get senpai to notice the supplicant, but yeah maybe just a creep. Or a creepy liar.

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    fuck off, mElon

    really wanting to get

    Love your neighbor, as you love yourself

    tattooed on my fucking forehead these days

    these people have taken a message of love and forgiveness and used it for millennia as a bludgeon for conformity, and it makes me hope it’s all true because it guarantees they’ll all rot in hell

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    Maybe this is beneath mention, but Rufo is failing to understand an extremely simple argument. The original original argument: “Religion declined, then woke happened, causation?!?!” The counter: “The US is extremely religious and also extremely woke, so irreligiosity clearly is not a majority factor determining wokeness” Rufo: “Obviously something can be both religious and woke at the same time” He’s restating a premise of the argument as though it is a refutation of the conclusion.

    idk, I just hate people being this willfully illiterate even aside from the stupidity of the discussion in the first place. “Wokeness” is like “Satanism” in boomer minds, a mostly imaginary religion that they need to fight a crusade against.

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    Nature also abhors matter. Everything is decomposing at varying rates and through various processes, until the eventual heat death of the universe, after which, who knows. Maybe such extreme uniformity would give rise to another “big bang” type of fluctuation to start it all over.