Why are there so many churchy people here.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

But religion is the attempted enslavement of the body and the mind.

That's as mindlessly offensive and as spectacularly idiotic as asserting that those who are not religious do not have morals.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Excuse me... I said ATTEMPTED.

What has that to do with the price of rice?

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Somewhat inevitably it appears that you don't know the first thing about the target of your juvenile ravings. Religion is far too complex a thing (if it is even really a single thing) to be dismissed as merely a form of 'social control'. The same rites and institutions that may be profoundly oppressive to one person may well be profoundly liberating to another. And that's just scratching the surface.

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I don't think that's true, but it is certainly true that I found your particular post to be quite offensive. I believe that I have a right to find offensive what offends me; I think we all do, actually. No one has a right to have their opinions accepted without question, without criticism.

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Leaving aside first the irony and second the idea that 'religion' can be thought of as a single 'institution', it strikes me as a little strange to view (say) a rosary as more evil than (say) Treblinka.