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Those many "private, personal" benign religious people form a strong foundation upon which the crazies, cults, and conmen build their structures.
In my experience, these benign people are one tragedy away from metastasizing into the malignant religious type.
I have cousins who were benign-religious for most of their life, but after a death in the family they started following a new sect of christianity. Their children have never seen a doctor, nor a vaccine.
I agree people are entitled to their personal freedoms, but we would be much better off as a society if we could educate our way out of the cancer that is religion.
This kind of thinking and language is also used by a variety of "Anti-Theists" talking about the "Woke mind virus" and working together with current US fascism.
Talking about people as "diseases" is a pretty good indicator of Fascist ideology and you might be more entangled by it than you think.
I think my post makes it quite clear that I was not referring to people as diseases, I specifically said that religion is the disease. The people are victims to the disease.
And if it isn't also obvious, I do consider myself an anti-theist. The overall effect of religion on society is negative, and we would be better off without religion. I don't see what this has to do with "woke mind virus" nonsense.
Absolutely! Very well put. These people are victims and are being taken advantage of for the sake of power and control.