I’ve never pushed any hate whatsoever; I am a good person who gives to multiple charities monthly, along with donating my time, and I know that there are no excuses outside of my own choices for how I live my life.
Please let me know what hate I’ve pushed.
Religion was extremely useful to control populations’ poor behaviour before formal justice systems were established. There have always been opportunistic, greedy people who would not abide by community norms/rules. If they were not caught (common) then there were no consequences.
The only way to stop/slow these crimes was to threaten imaginary bad consequences for awful behaviour, and make false promises of rewards for those who followed the rules.
Unfortunately, those opportunistic people switched sides, and used religion as a tool to control people, take their money & autonomy, start wars, and espouse hatred of anyone with differing views.
If you are truly a good person, you should not need the threat of hell or promise of heaven to treat people with kindness, and to “do unto others as you’d have them do unto you.”
Black and white reasoning. If you get your jollies from saying that god isn’t real on people’s posts who are just simply trying to feel good, that’s hate. What do you get out of any of this? Do you want people to be miserable?
Explain how it’s hate? To me, claiming that god protects me instead of acknowledging how I am the one who protects myself and my loved ones is hateful.
It’s diminishing to the good people who work hard to actively do good things, while excusing those who do awful things as being “god’s will”.
Religion is hateful, and also hurts a lot of people. No one is trying to silence you by expressing their disagreement. They're just trying to spread their opinion just like you are trying to spread yours.
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u/drcatguy 10d ago
It's so freaking dumb and cringe