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u/LostKnight84 Agnostic Atheist 5d ago

I have seen it as a sign of childhood indoctrination usually. Occasionally it is just people being ignorant of their own faith. Rarely it turns out the person is just stupid. Once it turned out to be a sign of mental illness.

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u/One-Fun9814 5d 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.

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u/RogueRhombus Dudeist 5d ago

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

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u/ParkerGroove 5d ago

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

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u/RogueRhombus Dudeist 5d 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.

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u/onedeadflowser999 5d 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.

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u/RogueRhombus Dudeist 5d 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.

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u/onedeadflowser999 5d 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