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AZJonnie

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3. To me religion is mostly an attempt by rulers to put a cop in everyone's life
Tue Dec 16, 2025, 12:17 PM
Dec 16

Without having to pay the cop You just tell 'em they're ALL being watched by an invisible magical force, ALL the time. It's sorta genius if I think about it, but it doesn't mean I have to like it. And I definitely don't want laws for everyone being made based on the scribblings of any particular strain of superstitious Bronze Age nomads and clerics.

We're talking about people who didn't even know, for example, that the female contributes a genetic component to her offspring, or that the world's species were formed by natural selection and random mutation, or even that the earth is a sphere.

The people who came up with all this originally really didn't know jack about much of anything, and we're supposed to base our lives on their random, unscientific musings? I'm sorry, I won't

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