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Originally Posted by Da33le
When you realise there are people willing to believe that nonsense, it starts to make sense why people fall for the lies of the Boris and Trumps of this world.
billions of people believe 2000 years ago a socialist carpenter did a bunch of stuff that (i guess coincidentally) are also a bunch of separate older myths, and if you don't believe all that unbelievable unproven stuff, you'll get tortured for infinity time because, now get this: they also believe that when you die your consciousness continues on, like the universe can't possibly allow their specialness to ever not exist and they're more than just a bunch of neurons firing.
those same people overwhelmingly elect our government. i mean in a way it's not even as bad as it could be, like we could be spending a trillion dollars building a ladder to heaven. i'm glass half full wrt reactionaries