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Playing make believe and having an imagonery friend as a grownup can't be healthy for either party.
For children to have an imaginary friend, it is called a "phase". For adults, it is called a "religion".
When religious people say:
That should be a pretty good hint that some people need an imaginary friend.
Stop fucking assuming that every other human is exactly like you, we get enough of that from republicans.
Even when that imaginery friend is making them kill everyone else? It's not the trans, degenerate people doing the genocides, it's the moral religious people. We can't keep playing along with these people imaginations.
In 2025, yes, but like let's not pretend secular liberals and communist anti-thiests don't have their fair share of genocides. The proposal that religion especially encourages evil is historically ignorant.
Which is why the Greeks are still committing genocides now that we've all accepted that it's a mythology. Same goes for the vikings, now that we've accepted that as a mythology. It's Almost like there's a pattern here.
Uh... yes?
Vikings aren't doing shit because they don't exist anymore; you'll see plenty of abhorrent behavior from later Scandinavians, especially related to colonialism.
Besides, you say "still" but when was genocide a common aspect of Greek or Nordic society?
You get that a lot of Neo Nazi white supremacists are hella into Norse religion right? There’s a reason someone listing “Asatru” on a dating profile is very sus.
You're kinda proving my point. The ones who still follow it are the sus ones.
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What?
If a gallon of milk is past the expiration date, do you throw out all the food in your home?
Or so you realize that instead of all food being bad, it's just rotten food?
I'm not saying we should kill all religious people. The fridge is broken. Stop putting new milk in it.
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So leave the rest of the food in the broken fridge?
Like, I understand you're trying to disagree with me, but your updated version of the analogy has the same takeaway:
Did I just woosh and you are agreeing with me intentionally?