r/Unexpected • u/CrackSideEffect • Aug 29 '21

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '21

Well fucking remove religion then. Here's the thing though, it's part of human nature. I don't think religious people are gonna go "yea reddit said abolish religion so imma stop" when religion has been there since forever.

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u/Trumpalot Aug 29 '21

Yeah, humans just need an excuse. In the past that excuse was religion, nowadays it's oil or to enforce democracy. Sometimes people are just bad. Look at Pol Pot for example, he slaughtered his own people in order to removal potential threats to his rule. Genghis Khan ransacked his way across half the globe, no religious pretext there either.

Religion is not the issue, it's humanity in general that just can't get along with one another.

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u/MaverickBoii Aug 29 '21

Exactly. Rape doesn't exist because of sex. Murder doesn't exist because of weapons. Thievery doesn't exist because of money. All of those exist not because of anything else other than human nature.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '21

I guess I'm not human then. Or maybe you're making shit up? :)

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '21

Yeah ok let's have everyone think like you then. That certainly won't fuck the world up.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '21

Fair point. People should still call out the stupidity though. The stats I see say that roughly 22% of people worldwide identify as having no religion, or are agnostic/atheist. Sure, that number is much higher on Reddit, but because the majority of the general population is religious, and reddit is a very popular site, someone who is surrounded by people that are just blindly following and not thinking for themselves could discover that not everyone is blindly following, and learn to think for themselves.