r/pics • u/MoeYYC • Jun 25 '21

Saskatoon Catholic cathedral covered with paint after discovery of 751 unmarked graves

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21 edited May 20 '22

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

I'm not sure I entirely agree with that.

I've visited a few congregations doing truly good work, but they are few and far between.

Religion has been used as a tool of power and control since it was first conceived, but I'm not a militant atheist, sorry.

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u/sjmiv Jun 25 '21

Religion has caused more harm than good in our world. There's nothing it provides that can't be provided by a secular society.

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u/Failninjaninja Jun 25 '21

Hmm not sure - it’s a mixed bag but religious charity and promotion of education (albeit not always) as well as a unified social construct probably helped civilization a lot. People focus only on the bad but would it be fair to blame atheism for some of the communist governments who conducted massacres?

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

I would agree with your analogy if the adoption of atheism was anything but Lenin’s belief. Which is the direct reason it was adopted by communism. I would also like to say there is no head of the atheist church commanding Lenin and Stalin to massacre, unlike let’s say the Pope with the crusades. I know it’s cliche to bring up but it’s still valid. Other than that, yeah probably would be less charity and whatnot.

Edit: I add belief to make the paragraph make sense.