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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 26-Oct-2023 22:15:35 JST Aral Balkan

   If you think religion – and by extension our inability to think rationally, which it legitimises at the highest levels of society – has “nothing to do with it”, you’re clearly not paying attention.

   And by “it”, I mean the climate crisis (the habitat crisis), I mean the human tragedies unfolding in Gaza and elsewhere… I mean our inability to tackle the existential challenges of our times in a logical and reasoned manner because we have 21st century technology driven by 1st century thinking.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 26-Oct-2023 22:28:04 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Rozalia Sofia

     @redrozalia 1. Nothing. But they can’t blame it on their beliefs either.

     2. Because it’s about power and control. It’s always been about power and control.

     3. Fuck knows. If you find out, please let the rest of us know because I don’t like where this is all heading otherwise.

   • Rozalia Sofia (redrozalia@kolektiva.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Oct-2023 22:28:05 JST Rozalia Sofia

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     @aral
     not to say that religion has NOTHING to do with it. but i have questions:
     1. what prevents an atheist from supporting fossil fuel use/imperialist war/etc.? (there are plenty of atheists who do.)
     2. why is religion such a powerful ideology in the 21st century, given the nature of present society?
     3. what would have to change in society, to release the grip of religion on peoples minds?

   • Éibhear 🔭 (eibhear@social.gibiris.org)'s status on Thursday, 26-Oct-2023 22:38:46 JST Éibhear 🔭

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     @aral Based on my extensive amateur reading of history (mostly Roman, but others too), I've come to the conclusion that religion is the tool that was developed to keep powerful men in power.
   • Comunidad bahá´í de Mexicali (bahais_mexicali@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 00:51:34 JST Comunidad bahá´í de Mexicali

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     @aral Someone brought up a good point... about working with religions which are so old... The Bahá'ís would suggest that religion is progressive and that the most recent one (but not the last), which deals with modern-day problems, is called the Bahá'í Faith. www.bahai.org

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 00:51:34 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Comunidad bahá´í de Mexicali

     @Bahais_Mexicali I really didn’t mean for this thread to be a place to advertise your religion.