• IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com
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    4 hours ago

    I look at it this way in terms of spirituallity… (Aka psychopath minded religion excluded.)

    Kid has 1 arm.

    Community that doesn’t have the means or knowledge for science helps promote hope and faith that keeps the kid going.

    Science does it’s thing, as it always has and creates an arm.

    Kid is able to get the new arm because the community and faith helped keep his spirits up so he didn’t suicide out of hopelessness.

    …The real enemy is the marketing and psychological manipulation tainting everything. It’s not just religions. It rapes everything for all that it can benefit from. Every demographic is observed and bled of all its authentic soul. From religions, to cultures, governments, arts, and even sciences.

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      3 hours ago

      Why not foster hope through science? Religion is unneeded for that.

      Plus, if the situation was hopeless scientifically, the kid would be better off accepting reality than to endlessly hope for something that will never come. Just build with what he can instead of daydreaming about what can’t be.

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      3 hours ago

      All major religions have people doing stuff that is to the benefit of the higher-ups in the religion and is to the disadvantage to the common believer.

      But you’re right, it also happens outside of religion, like with capitalism and billionaires vs the working class.

      Religion is just a means to keep the plebs from revolting.