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   @guyjantic @IntentionallyBLANK -- You cannot believe in equal rights when your God prefers one group over another.
   Karl Popper's Paradox of Tolerance applies to Religion as much as it does to Fascism and Racism.
   Fascism and Racism go hand in hand but Religion is ALWAYS making this a trio.

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     @IntentionallyBLANK @jeffowski I grew up conservative Christian. I can tell you this question wouldn't have made most people I know "uncomfortable." They would have just said "Yes, I'd kill you" (or waffled if they felt it was socially too awkward to say). In many religions, morality is fully outsourced to God, and most people don't see this as bad or inconsistent with having personal morality. They are taught that their job as a human is to learn to understand God's morality and make it theirs.

     And yes, that's how things like suicide bombers happen.

     Elledeeay repeated this.
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     @guyjantic @IntentionallyBLANK --
     I think you misunderstand...
     It all falls together under authoritarianism and a prevention or prohibition of critical thought.
     Just as Racism is an acceptance of that bigotry based on authority and not on your independent thought, Religion is precisely the same thing.

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     @jeffowski @IntentionallyBLANK Sure, and I agree. However, I was personally never taught to prefer one group over another (though my church had hella official racism very shortly before my time). I was just taught that you do what God says, no matter what, because he's smarter than you.

     It's not necessarily about bigotry, though I agree it very frequently goes there.

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     @guyjantic @IntentionallyBLANK -- I'm viewing this as a philosopher. In philosophy, how you get to a conclusion is as important as the conclusion.
     When you dissect the thought processes (or lack of thought and a jump to acceptance), they are all interconnected in that specific way.
     It supports psychological studies where the use of bad thought processes and the acceptance of bad thought processes allow OTHER bad ideas to be accepted using those same thought processes.
     ---> MORE

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     @jeffowski @IntentionallyBLANK I think we're categorizing differently. For you it's all one ball of wax. For me it's different things, though connected. I can see the view that religion = all bad things together, but I don't share it.

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     @guyjantic @IntentionallyBLANK -- So Religious Indoctrination of children and their lack of ability to fight back against the indoctrination is a foundation for OTHER bad ideas, such as racism and fascism to form using the same thought processes.