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There's a little more incentive to claim to be an adherent to a religion when the people of that religion believe in eternal damnation for non-believers.
It's just not comparable at all. Socialism isn't a religion.
Ok so because you think Christians can trick God, faking isn't real.
Seriously what is the point in your comments? I absolutely know that if you thought about it for .5 seconds you'd see the point, instead you try to derail by saying what socialism is or isn't and that has fuck-all to do with the point. Substitute any other belief you can fake and the point remains.
I find it really annoying, this trend of "your comparison doesn't work, there's at least one difference between the two things." Yeah no shit, why would I compare identical things? The point is to illustrate the relevance difference between the two. In this case, "despite whether the belief is one you like or not, it can be faked". Obviously.
The point is to point out glaring weaknesses in bullshit arguments.
You're comparing a religion based on blind faith, with a political ideology. They're different things.
Weird how you keep pretending that matters. Obviously you know that comparisons don't require things to be identical. You obviously also know that you don't get to decide what constitutes a similarity that matters. But keep pretending you don't get it even after having it spelled out for you