Why are poor people poor?

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Religion causes more poverty than there should be.

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It gives poor people hope in something that doesn't exist. It's sad, when you're hopeless and you're putting all your hopes in something that doesn't exist, that's cruel. Pray to something that doesn't exist, that's a cruel game. Making fun of suffering of millions of people.

Honestly, there are things that have to be said. I hate religion. My grandmother has fifteen kids and they were poor--a poor peasant, and every time they went to church to say that they didn't want more kids, the priest would say, "You're gonna burn in hell." The whole role the church plays in the oppression of poor. You gotta say things the way they are.

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Religion is a powerful tool, because it is created to control you through consciousness. Now that I'm atheist, I feel so free, I feel like I took a 10-pound weight off my back, like I broke a chain. Your whole understanding of the world is much more advanced. Once I became an atheist, it was so liberating. People deserve to be liberated from perpetual poverty. Religion creates a consciousness in you--if I didn't agree with my father, I'm a sinner, I'm gonna burn in hell. It's a psychological war.

If its just religion that is bad,  Moses and all those people killed millions of people, and all those things are celebrated in the bible. About Lot--how he gave his daughter to be raped, and god celebrated that. Those wars were blessed by god. This is backwards thinking.

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HECK YES SOCIALIZED HEALTHCARE FOR REDNECKS OMG.