• NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
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    17 hours ago

    Maybe it was, maybe it wasn’t, that’s not my point. My point is that the statement “religious fucks have held us back for millennia” is nonsensical because before the last three hundred years or so everyone was a “religious fuck.”

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      6 hours ago

      Otherwise brilliant people who happen to be religious on the side are fine, if misguided.

      That’s not who we’re talking about here, though. “Religious fucks” in this context almost certainly means people and institutions who insist on their religion being the ultimate decider on what people are allowed to do, say, or even THINK.

      THOSE are a poison to freedom, creativity, and well-functioning society. Especially in the cases of theocracies and semi-theocracies like Israel and the US.

      • 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca
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        58 minutes ago

        i think using the word “a religious fanatic” would be a better term. im roman catholic, but sure as hell not ok with the shit going on down south of me from here up in Canada.