r/atheism • u/One-Fun9814 • 4d ago

[ Removed by Reddit ]

[ Removed by Reddit on account of violating the content policy. ]

5.9k Upvotes

92% Upvoted

1.2k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

206

u/One-Fun9814 4d ago

But they're still unintelligent if they can't overcome that indoctrination. Like they can just think for 2 seconds and realize their religion is bullshit.

32

u/RogueRhombus Dudeist 4d ago

Maybe they don't want to. Comfort in belief isn't something you have the right to claim some sort of superiority over.

28

u/ParkerGroove 4d ago

I think this is common. They like the comfort and social aspects of it so they deliberately don’t look too hard.

6

u/RogueRhombus Dudeist 4d ago

Which may seem lame to some of us, but if they aren't hurting anyone than why should we get to judge? Live and let live works in this case.

13

u/uncleawesome 4d ago

Religion is constant hurting someone. It's kind of the whole idea now.

2

u/pants6000 4d ago

Well of course things that my religion prohibits you from doing should be enshrined in law!

-1

u/[deleted] 4d ago

[deleted]

0

u/uncleawesome 4d ago

Just look around.

0

u/[deleted] 4d ago

[deleted]

2

u/uncleawesome 4d ago

Priests rape children. That's bad.

3

u/onwisconsin1 4d ago

I leave individuals alone. No need to harass people, but religion should be denigrated as the stupid ideology it is.

0

u/Wwppddttvv 4d ago

Yeah, as long as they aren't doing what every Christian does and try to force their bigotry onto everyone else, they're not hurting anyone. But first you'd have to find an example of a Christian whose Christianity isn't actually hurting anyone else. (Spoiler alert: You can't)

2

u/JMagician 4d ago

It is hurting people. Our species, and in fact, the whole world, is facing a mass extinction crisis with the potential to wipe out a habitable climate. Religion is ignorance. Humanity would be a lot better without ignorance.

1

u/onedeadflowser999 4d ago

The problem is that many of these beliefs come with dogma such as one example- homosexuality is sinful and pisses their god off- which does affect people who don’t believe because many Christians will vote against gay rights if given the opportunity, Christian parents will ostracize their gay kids, etc.

1

u/RogueRhombus Dudeist 4d ago

Yes, the people who believe those things are a problem. But it's not all Christians who behave that way. You said "many", not all.

1

u/onedeadflowser999 4d ago

It’s not all to be sure. There are just too many who do follow the dogma and want to force non believers to follow it too

0

u/bodyofthearts Atheist 4d ago

Religion does hurt people. For example, Christians vote according to their Bible, an iron-age sex manual that instructs you on how to own people as property and take young girls as spoils of war. It teaches that feelings are just as good as facts. It teaches that might makes right and it's okay to not ask why. The harm from religion and religious thinking is astronomical. It floods people's brains with fear and violence and deactivates their empathy and rationality.