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this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2024
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Atheism is a religion in the same way not playing baseball is a sport
If you can’t seem to focus your attention on the topic at hand you might want to consult a physician.
Unless you think there’s someone out there encouraging not baseball, and that person should be stopped.
It isn’t a shitpost, religion is the leading cause of radicalization in the US and oneof, if not the leading cause it self, of violence and hate crimes. Serious consideration needs to be given if it has a place in modern society
In some POV the absence of religion could lead to a religious like lifestyle, maybe we should approach religious teachings like something more likely to an agnostic POV?
But the four noble truths and eight-fold path are just guidelines. If you read the Dhammapada you'd see the Buddha asks that you reject things that don't make sense to you.
Instead of, you know, forcing women to make medical decisions against their will or removing human anatomy to make their penises look cute.
Maybe some religions could be better than others about the premise of my point, but definitely the fact about children not having a full developed brain, in the majority of cases it's bad for them.