• ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I used to work for a software development company in Louisiana. At company meetings the CEO would always close with a prayer to Jesus, which was certainly the only time in my programming career I had to deal with that. Maybe 80% of the company were Christians but the rest of us were Jews, Muslims, Hindus and atheists (just me) and it was always weird to be looking around at each other while everybody else had their heads bowed. Unfortunately, this company was pretty much the only game in town for programmers so nobody was willing to call the CEO out for this shit.

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      3 months ago

      What the fuck, that is straight up unprofessional and exclusionist. I’m sorry you had to go through this.

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    Unfortunately, most people are emotional creatures first. Sometimes only. So facts don’t really matter because they’re engaging on the emotional level of “christian stuff feels good and safe, but other stuff feels dangerous and foreign”. We all do this to some extent. There’s no solution.

    People mostly change their mind because stuff coming from their in-group, or horrible trauma.

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      There IS a solution to this particular problem, namely don’t use schools as a vector for spreading religion.

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        That’s true for this specific thing, but won’t solve the underlying problem of “things I’m comfortable with are good, and abstract things like facts and fairness don’t matter”

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          No disagreement there, although I also think what people feel comfortable with is a malleable thing and by implementing policies that work for everyone as well as for Christians we could improve the world a little.

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    I grew up poor. We never got to go to the christian summer camp like all our friends. The upside is that we never got sexually assaulted like all our friends.

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        Christian terminology for religious leaders is so insulting. A pastor implies that his followers are sheep, incapable of critical thought.

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        Public non religious schooling helped. I had sorted things out pretty early on that being alone with any adult was not beneficial. I was a nervous and frightened child and I honestly believe that it saved me on many occasions. My best friend whom I have known since I was four did not have such luck.

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    Okay, but here me out. What if God is real and doing the Christian thing guarantees that your team wins games against the Pasadena Pagans?

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    i mean, if you support a rational society that uses reasoning to create an altruistic stewardship of the world, then it pretty much justifies an any means necessary approach to defeat christian nationalism (or any other superstitious, irrational belief system). otherwise, the next century is going to unimaginable suffering.

    and this is why i support militant atheism.

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      Why be wrong about one thing when you could be wrong about lots of things…I’m just an atheist messing around no offense meant

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        “Pagan” is a very broad term, and I could see a form of athesist paganism developing. Nature exists, and you can start with that. Rituals would be purely an expression of appreciation for the natural world around us.

        Plus, you have an excuse to run around naked in the woods. Which is the actual goal here.

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    The two times religion entered my school life were when we studied myths in English class, and in sociology where we watched Jesus Camp and had to figure out how people could be so retarded (different time)

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    I wasn’t uncomfortable. I was thinking get it girl! It takes a lot of courage to go to a school and teach kids the goat mother birthed them under a pale blue moon.

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    But it’s a Christian country. So get with the program or get burned at the stake, hanged, stoned, drowned, flayed and shot. Not necessarily in that order.

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      They never suggested there weren’t.

      Saying something doesn’t belong in schools doesn’t mean it was never in schools.

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        I said “they got it wrong” because they literally said “I got [the details] wrong”, I just continued the “joke”