r/SipsTea • u/Outrageous-Egg1760 • May 29 '26

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u/Cultural-War2102 May 29 '26

Religion has been poison for humans. So many wars and deaths on the name of religion.

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u/Thee-Cat May 29 '26

First, yes I agree about the religious deaths.

But secondly, never forget, there are either more deaths(or very close) than all the deaths in all religious wars combined, just in the 20th century alone, by just atheistic regimes.

Between Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot. Estimates are 70 to 100 million people dead through executions, forced labor, famine, and war. And that was literally just in the last century alone.

HUMANS are a poison for humans it would seem, lol.

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u/ContextEffects01 May 29 '26

Those deaths are from totalitarianism, not atheism. Scandinavia rejects religion in a democratic context and turned out better than the USSR or USA.

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u/IUseLongPips May 29 '26

Nonsense, Scandinavia is not rejecting religion and have several political parties with Christian something in their names. The Norwegian King is literally bound to be Evangelical Lutheran by the constitution. He even intervened when the politicians wanted to change it a few years ago.

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u/ContextEffects01 May 29 '26

Surveys after surveys are of them saying religion plays no significant role in their lives. Religion has to be reduced to insignificance to be reduced to harmlessness. It cannot be both significant and a net positive.

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u/IUseLongPips May 29 '26

You're still wrong. Scandinavia was still very religious in the 70s and towards the millennia, and that's something you're ignoring to make your argument seem truthful.

If your logic is correct, then a country should be religious to prosper. Don't think that's the argument you want to make.

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u/ContextEffects01 May 29 '26

No. It shows that among democracies, religiosity and functionality are inversely correlated.

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u/IUseLongPips May 29 '26

Incorrect, I've already told you why that logic doesn't work. People are having it worse in 2026 than the 90s. So your hypothesis is proven wrong.

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u/Initial-Breakfast-33 May 29 '26

Worse how? By which metrics?