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13 days agoThink of your closest friend or family member. Do you “believe in” them?
Think of your closest friend or family member. Do you “believe in” them?
It’s very rare that you find anyone on Lemmy/Reddit that actually takes more than eight seconds to critically think about the significance of “religion,” and not just immediately monkey brain into “religion is for idiots.” Alas, I hoped that this particular group think would’ve stayed behind.
A belief is not a religion, and a religion is not a belief. Any one person can be varying degrees of “religious,” and any one person can hold varying levels of belief in a higher power.
I don’t have much else to add because your comment was pretty well thought-out.
I’m in this no-experience-to-apprenticeship program and everyone in my class thinks type coercion is the greatest thing ever.