• afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Religion can be toxic, but so can non-religious nations like Russia under Putin.

    You can die from snake venom. That doesn’t mean cancer is harmless.

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      10 months ago

      I get what previous commenter said: the problem is the people with power wanting to control the population, religion is just the means to an end (sorry if this is not the correct way to say it). In my way of seeing it, religion as always been a cover to interests of the powerful, a way to keep the population controlled, or dumbed down. In the example of this thread, they are openly using this strategy by cutting access to education.