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   Damien Marie AtHope (damienmarieathope@kolektiva.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Dec-2023 20:21:39 JST Damien Marie AtHope

   Promoting Religion as Real is Mentally Harmful to a Flourishing Humanity

   To me, promoting religion as real is too often promote a toxic mental substance that can divide a person from who they are shaming them for being human. In addition, religion is a toxic mental substance that can divide a person from real history, real science, or real morality to pseudohistory, pseudoscience, and pseudomorality. Moreover, religion is a toxic mental substance that can divide a person from rational thought, critical thinking, or logic. Likewise, religion is a toxic mental substance that can divide a person from justice, universal ethics, equality, and liberty. Yes, religion is a toxic mental substance that can divide a person from loved ones, and religion is a toxic mental substance that can divide a person from humanity. Therefore, to me, promoting religion as real is too often promote a toxic mental substance that should be rejected as not only false but harmful as well even if you believe it has some redeeming quality. To me, promoting religion as real is mentally harmful to a flourishing humanity. Religion may have once seemed great when all you had or needed was to believe. Science now seems great when we have facts and need to actually know.

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     gnutelephony (gnutelephony@floss.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Dec-2023 20:21:39 JST gnutelephony

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     @DamienMarieAtHope promoting religion as real requires promoting magical thinking. That to me is the crime, or, as you say, toxic mental health.

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     gnutelephony (gnutelephony@floss.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Dec-2023 20:36:43 JST gnutelephony

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     @DamienMarieAtHope sometimes I perhaps do need a sarcasm tag. I was surprised nobody picked up on talking about accidentally kicking star systems out of the galaxy while actually climbing Chanku Luta. I actually do know these traditions, but when applying them as base reality you do get strange and at times clearly absurd and amusing concepts. It can be very useful for mythic story telling or for speaking about how one feels, though.

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     Damien Marie AtHope (damienmarieathope@kolektiva.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Dec-2023 20:36:44 JST Damien Marie AtHope

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     • gnutelephony

     @gnutelephony Wise.