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What does concern me is the number of people fleeing organized religion because they view it as a source of harm. Seeing the way faith has been wielded as a political weapon for much of the last few years speaks to that.

Faith is inherently and specifically a weapon. It works like this: Tell everyone to believe a certain thing based on nothing at all but believe it right to your very (native and stupid even) core where no evidence will sway you no matter what. Just believe the things we want and fight for that reality when needed.

Get a critical amount of people believing the right thing and yes, you get a weapon. One like maga. A weapon that will try to start a coup and cheat an election and then just kinda say "nah, that's not what happened". And you know photos and videos of it would've been enshrined in history books as a "how we took the country back" type of deal if it had worked. Thankfully it didn't but they're all doing that face from the meme (I think from Cuphead) of the flower doing the bashful face instead.

This kind of faith will always lead to these kinds of outcomes. You can't have radical belief without radical action.

Faith needs to be removed from society completely. That's probably one of the steps of evolution the aliens are waiting on to finally greet us lmao.

That and learning how to stop being psychos. But that could happen faster if we could at least all believe the same general thing. Everybody will have differing other beliefs of course, but if we can stop believing in supernatural sky daddies first then that will go a long way.

Islam and Christianity both need to die. Breaking from those 2 will have the biggest immediate impact given their populations, and I would hope that lack of belief starts adding up when the other religions start finding themselves with bigger and bigger amounts of non theism.

Plus those 2 are the most likely to fight about it. Christianity in particular has caused more suffering and death than any single other thing on the planet probably. I don't have sources for that but it's definitely up there. Plagues are up there too.

But yeah. Faith is a weapon. Sorting out your beliefs based on how much it agrees with your favorite book (that you haven't read) is never a recipe for success.

And even in their own religion god deserves hell based on the book. Like even Jack the ripper and the OKC bomb guy (literally blanking on his name atm- Bundy maybe?) would deserve heaven so much more than god would. But he gets a free pass because of something or other.

Well I tried to give the benefit of doubt even after hating Apple in general. I'm out of ideas of ways he wasn't a complete idiot that was doing stupid things for stupid reasons. And I've always been happy he's dead since I heard he was.

I actively celebrate deaths of stops and evil people alike. I've never seen the point of curbing it under terms like "I don't wish him dead, but I won't be sad to see his obituary". No I am actually am happy he's dead and just giddy to see his obit.

Kinda like I'm sure everyone was glad to see Hitler dead. I just get happy about evil AND stupid people's deaths.

Well if the treatment is specifically miserable, that could be a factor.

Jobs was an idiot. Chose homeopathic crap instead of medicine. I don't give him credit for anything if he's that dumb.

He's free to do that, sure, but anyone doing so is safe to be labeled "moron" by everyone else.

Unless I've heard a messed up version of events he will stay in the "idiots that were not beneficial to humans in any way" trash can.

Every medical choice you make should be made between you and your doctor(s).

None should ever be made based on commercials. Ever.

Can medicine finally stop getting jingles?

Fuck you (drug you all wanna mention but I won't give them the exposure here) and your randomly changing cast of dancers and main singer.

No more big story to tell got you.

So RFK2 with this and Trump trying to end DST.

If they can stay on the fringe of everything like that then maaaaybe it won't be so bad? But they can't.

What could possibly be the differentiating factor between when it works and when it doesn't? This is a text only kind of issue and this is the first time I've ever seen it happen.

I'm not a super frequent visitor to spoiler'd content, but I've seen it often enough to know it normally works.

Lol Internet

You're me.

I saw the link and thought to myself "this is gonna be correct horse battery staple isn't it?"

Lmaooooo

I was about to post this.

I'm on my 2nd blank one from them now.

No RGB, not even any print on the keys. So nice

Damn I don't even remember that in this movie.

I do cringe from the memory of it happening in "a quiet place" though.