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Brilliant. Where is this from?
Terry Pratchett. I think "Making Money".
Going Postal IIRC.
Ancient Carthaginians did sacrifice their children (2014)
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Reading comments like this is so surreal. Millions of very normal, well-adjusted people around the world feel that God speaks to them. Have you literally never interacted with a religious person before, or are you just an idiot? My mother donates 10% of her income and volunteers at homeless shelters because she feels that God wants her to. Other than that she lives like pretty much everyone else. Oh no, so terrible!…
Yes, I have interacted with plenty of religious person,s this is where my personal stance and comment above are rooted. Yes, I know these people are well integrated into society. But this doesn't change my analysis. I consider religious nuts at least untrustworthy and in some cases outright dangerous to others. If someone spends his whole life in such an elaborate hallucination, nobody knows what they are capable of…
Oh, that’s interesting. I’ve met this particular delusion before: someone who was bullied by a teacher or something and now they think they have it all figured out.
I’m sorry you experienced this trauma or whatever. It has damaged your worldview to the point where someone calling you an idiot once is irrefutable proof that we should shun and discriminate against an entire group of people. Usually we call that bigotry though, and we don’t feel sorry for people who practice it.
And while we are throwing out FWIWs, I myself am not religious.
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Yes, I have interacted with plenty of religious person,s this is where my personal stance and comment above are rooted. Yes, I know these people are well integrated into society. But this doesn't change my analysis. I consider religious nuts at least untrustworthy and in some cases outright dangerous to others. If someone spends his whole life in such an elaborate hallucination, nobody knows what they are capable of…
Oh, that’s interesting. I’ve met this particular delusion before: someone who was bullied by a teacher or something and now they think they have it all figured out. I’m sorry you experienced this trauma or whatever. It has damaged your worldview to the point where someone calling you an idiot once is irrefutable proof that we should shun and discriminate against an entire group of people. Usually we call that bigotry…
> And while we are throwing out FWIWs, I myself am not religious.
But judging from your way of remote diagnosing people over the internet, you are at least a very qualified psychiatrist, right?
You aparently dont consider religious people untrustworthy and protentially dangerous. That is fine, everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I don't share yours. EOT.
Re: Ancient Carthaginians did sacrifice their children (2014)
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Oh, that’s interesting. I’ve met this particular delusion before: someone who was bullied by a teacher or something and now they think they have it all figured out. I’m sorry you experienced this trauma or whatever. It has damaged your worldview to the point where someone calling you an idiot once is irrefutable proof that we should shun and discriminate against an entire group of people. Usually we call that bigotry…
> And while we are throwing out FWIWs, I myself am not religious. But judging from your way of remote diagnosing people over the internet, you are at least a very qualified psychiatrist, right? You aparently dont consider religious people untrustworthy and protentially dangerous. That is fine, everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I don't share yours. EOT.
EOT? No, it’s not. You cannot discriminate against people because of certain characteristics. To do so is wrong. Race, age, gender, sexuality, nationality - and also religion.
You don’t need to be a qualified psychiatrist to have a moral compass.
I can’t believe I’m explaining religious freedom to someone on HN. This website is supposedly full of smart, enlightened progressives. We figured out it is wrong to hate people for their religion like 300 years ago?…