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[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 51 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Religions suck. They're the root of all problems.

[–] iByteABit@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They aren't the root, but they're a strong enabler

[–] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of the times they are precisely the root

[–] Chouxfleur@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Are they the root, or are they a justification? Seems like a pretty reductive take, to be honest.

Wars have been occurring for a long time, and generally a desire for resources (including control over people) is a leading cause. Religion is an easy thing to use to get people to lay their lives on the line for you if they already have that belief. Equally it's an easy scapegoat for anti-religious people to blame wars on as well.

This conflict isn't just about religion. If it was then Israel's neighbours probably would have got involved as well.

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago

Interesting take after about a century of World Wars, Cold War and other global conflicts that where mostly not about religion at all.

[–] creditCrazy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not really like I have seen religion actually work in making a society kind and in many places religion is the culture so without it those cultures would simply dissolve honestly I say religion is kinda like guns it can be used for good things and they both can be corrupted by bad people and used for bad things at the end of the day there are some shit people out there that want nothing but power and they see religions as a way to control people

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Religion is stupid and causes way to many issues. And religion has always been a way to control people it's literally why it was invented.

[–] creditCrazy@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By that logic you can say government is stupid and only exist to control folks and what about culture is that also stupid

[–] Qwaffle_waffle@sh.itjust.works -5 points 1 year ago

Government is a form of religion.