• cjoll4@lemmy.world
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      10 hours ago

      Because magic sky daddy is the most important thing to many people in many places, all the time. Because they’ve been conditioned to believe that if someone doesn’t hold the correct views on magic sky daddy, they’ll suffer for all eternity, and so they live in constant fear that they or their children might become misled by the incorrect views on magic sky daddy. This stuff is deeply internalized.

      • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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        7 hours ago

        And that’s a part of the material conditions we operate in. We ignore them at our peril.

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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      Because stupid breads at a far greater rate than intelligent and educated people. Unless your one of those rightwing psychopaths that’s all about seeding the population with your “superior” genetics.