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For many christians, "christianity" is a social club they strongly belong to, not an actual religion. They don't give a fuck about what the bible is actually trying to convey, they just use the bible as a tackboard to pin their own beliefs and desires onto.
You described almost every religion ever.
Religion is a mental disorder. Prove me wrong. (with actual studies and not anecdotes)
Religion is just ceremony and doctrine surrounding belief.
A bit like having cake and a party, because you believe the earth completing a lap of the sun dated from the day of your birth is worth celebrating. Or having someone arrested and taken to court and sent to prison for stealing from you, because you and many others in society believe in concepts like personal property, and justice, and morality. You know, all those things you believe in that definitely exist, even though you've never seen a photo of morality, or seen a scientific study proving that justice exists. But they must do because old books say so, and so do your peers, and anyway our whole society would fall apart if people stopped believing in them.
Humans, simply put, are weird. We're a species composed of mental disorders unique to us and nothing else in nature. To single out religion as being especially weird and worthy of contempt is... well... a bit weird and worthy of contempt, IMO
Cakes, parties, planets, the Sun, rotation, years, are all real. Your gods aren't.
Yea go ahead and get back to me when a birthday party involves killing someone and celebrating it.
So celebrating murder is the benchmark for insanity? Public executions used to draw big crowds, nothing to do with religion. Armies still give ceremonial medals for particularly inventive or brave killing, again, nothing to do with religion. Luigi Mangelone is celebrated by many for murder... admittedly the murder of a corporate 'hands off' serial killer, but still - its celebrating murder.
Again, I say, people are strange enough already - religion is barely even the icing on the cake.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10508619.2020.1729570
"You should be nice to people"
How does this need proof? Something like Buddhism isn't saying "this is how the world is" more like "these attitudes might be helpful to you" - there is nothing there to prove.
Of course if you think that a gigantic sky daddy wants you to invade a country because the man on TV said so, then perhaps you should reassess some things.
Buddhism isn't a religion as there is no deity to worship. Isn't it more a philosophy?
Yeah, its a sliding scale. I suppose tax status is a simple line to differentiate between a philosophy & religion.
That only exists in the USA for what I know and would be a terrible way to decide theological or philosophical questions lol!
Doesn't need a god either, or thousands of mutually incompatible made-up backstories.
Exactly. and the vast majority of how 'religion' is used today is ...
Yesterday I would have said intermittent fasting.
Today? IDK probably getting their internal monologues to shut the fuck up for a bit.
Silencing the inner monologue over the most bsnal explanations and/or wishful thinking ever is ... a mental disorder.
Vast majority? Christianity and Islam combined make up about 66% of the religious population. Which other religions have a sizeable amount of people and conduct crusades?
I hate to break it to you, but those 66% are conducting crusades... Just look at all the fucking brainless Christogooners celebrating the war on Iran...
No, not all Christians/Islamists are bad, but their religions are.
Ah, so you just don't know what ‘vast majority’ means, and think you can use words willy-nilly.
Nope. I know what the religions do, and you are in denial.
Yes, illiteracy often correlates with strong and stupid opinions, so your case is not surprising.
In order to answer the challenge, I suppose the first question would be 'what constitutes a religion?' If you're simply talking about a group of people who share a passionately held belief that tries to get others to conform to that belief through emotional manipulation, intimidation and peer pressure, well....you're pretty much talking about the entire human race.
Yes, the entire human race is contemptible. I'm glad we could arrive at this conclusion.
Heh...not sure why such a conclusion would make you glad, but if there's one thing that's universally true of the human race, it's that people will do amazing things - amazingly awesome things, and amazingly terrible things. I guess the trick is to try to do more of the awesome stuff as much as we can.... shrug
That's not how science works. Prove your hypothesis right with actual studies.
No they’re not!
(Source: my feelings)
Religion is one of human basic mental needs, unfortunately. Oh, prove me wrong. (with actual studies and not anecdotes)
How about you prove yourself right before demanding that others need to?
Fun fact, only yesterday I've heard in the radio about a new study about youth anxiety and their conclusion was that a sense of togetherness is what reduces anxiety and while religious communities provide that, they are not the sole provider of that sense and other communities may as well. Also "people need community" is not the same as "people need religion", so your ridiculous claim better be not backed up by anything that confuses these two.
My "prove it" comment was a direct reaction on LurkingLuddite's "prove it" comment - see it to find the /s in mine. I don't have studies but I have friends with education in psychology and this seems to be today's understanding of human psyche. People need something transcendental to believe in - that's why religion is so widespread. It's not a disorder, it's the natural state. I'm not a big fan of religion, so I see it as an evolutionary trap - surely adaptive in many ways, though, unfortunately.
Aren't the least religious countries on Earth generally the happiest ones?
The least religious countries are those without a strong central organized religion. The people there are still mostly religious, just on an individual level - I live in one of those, I can see it all around.
Prove it (with actual studies and not anecdotes)
It's not my field of study. All I can give you is my experience. Feel free to find some yourself though, if you're interested enough.