• gerikson@awful.systems
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    12 days ago

    In this case it sounded like a bunch of amoral assholes on 4chan tried to trick a vulnerable individual to kill themselves. A religion that operated like that would not be able to sustain itself and spread.

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      I would argue that such things do happen, the cult “Heaven’s Gate” probably being one of the most notorious examples. Thankfully, however, this is not a widespread phenomenon.

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      Yet, amoral assholes tricking vulnerable people with tales of magic is how religion spreads.

      • gerikson@awful.systems
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        No it isn’t you idiot. But please continue to spout 90s era New Atheism propaganda as if it will change anyone’s minds at this point.

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          Nit: “New Atheism” was the decade after that. Gary Wolf coined the term in a Wired story from 2006.

        • self@awful.systems
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          of course they’re one of these

          how did you imagine this was gonna go?

          • you show up in a community you don’t participate in and post low-quality edgelord atheist horseshit that doesn’t have anything to do with what you replied to
          • one of the regulars calls you out on your weird bullshit
          • you report them for breaking a rule that doesn’t exist and I go “uhhhh ok!” and they’re the one that gets banned for some reason???