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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (21 children)
[–] sauerkraus 13 points 2 years ago (10 children)

On the surface level, yeah. But if you dig a bit deeper a religious person upholds the idea that religious belief is reasonable. When people have the opinion that religious belief is reasonable it causes measurable harm to everyone on this planet.

An individual believer cannot be separated from the religion.

[–] what 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

This is a very narrow viewpoint in my opinion. I'm not denying religion has caused harm, but a large portion of people have found it to be a means to do good (and I mean legit good that almost everyone can agree on, things like foodbanks, stopping addictions and so on)

[–] sauerkraus 2 points 2 years ago

I’m not a Catholic, so I don’t consider bad deeds to be ok so ling as you do a few good.

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