For example, you put yourself through university by studying hard and working full time. Then someone says, you should thank god for giving you the strength. Like wtf do you mean, I busted my ass day in and day out but I’m supposed to thank god for it?

  • gwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Probably cause I read the words you said

    Religion is, and always has been

    even the most unfair and exploitative conditions can still be portrayed as just

    Seems pretty cut-and-dry to me

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      You’re reading into my statement that it somehow implies I’m making some kind of fundamental claim about religion here. I’m sorry, but it’s simply a fact that religion is being misused for political purposes. I can’t help it if you’re turning that into a fundamental claim that isn’t there at all.

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          What else is there to say? This statement is correct: religion has always been misused for political purposes - that’s what the sentence says, not that religion itself is always misused; that’s your interpretation.

          Besides, if you’d read a little further, you probably would have figured out what I’m trying to say.