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Why in 2024 do people still believe in religion? (serious)

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  • Here's the problem with English: I can not use the word "you", and still have people know whether I am talking to them, or to people like them in general. Some of my "you"s were plural, some were singular. I need some way of coping with this language.

    You replied to only 1 paragraph of mine, and decided I am a troll just for suggesting pushing that slavery/"pedophilia" might not be bad, unlike what you were taught.

    Here's an article I remembered, it's written by a Christian:

    Although you've been lied to, it's not the lies that's the problem. As an adult, you can a lot of the times tell when the media is manipulating you, especially in the last past decade it's gotten so obvious even a Boomer could see it. But what you don't see is how when you were lied to (or told selective truths) as a child, you didn't have the same BS-detector, and that allowed a lot of deep-seated impressions about the world to be formed. So a lot of people who don't believe anything the media says now (rightly) are still mind-cucked. They accept the programming and differ on the details.

    I will give you this hint. Basically all of your programmed emotional responses are your enemies. There was an old Moldbug blog post where he talked about even far after "awaking from his dogmatic slumber," he still was surprised that if he saw a group of Nazi LARPers, he would reflexively have a pang of emotional stress, but if he saw Stalinist LARPers, he wouldn't have the same kind of emotional reaction. I think everyone raised in the West has that same programmed reaction. You might know with your head that the communist death count is supposed to be higher and the suppression wider, but it doesn't click because you weren't made sensitive to it.

    Edit: no, actually, English isn't the problem, since I appended "guys" to my statement about looking at religion and deciding it's silly, you should know that I wasn't talking about you personally.

    I think the biggest flaw is assuming you're among the atheist/agnostic crowd, but even then, I appended that claim with "(I guess)" to indicate that I am indeed putting words in someone's mouth. Maybe you're among the Christian crowd, or maybe you're a... Zionist Jew? Hindu?

    For any passing people, the original reply isn't edited, so I am safe from that side of accusations.

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