• nxfsi@lemmy.world
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    Societies that have adopted religion at a young age have consistently out-competed societies that did not adopt religion, therefore that means religion is massively beneficial to human society.

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      Religious assholes has never allowed an atheist society to survive. Abrahamic religions were spread by the Sword, if you recall.

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      I wouldn’t call Christianity’s genocidal behavior to be a net benefit to humanity.

      We have no idea how many Galilieo’s, Newton’s, or Einstein’s they have killed.

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      This is not true religion spread because of a lack of understanding in nature what was once seen as God is now explained in science the more we understand the less religion is needed

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      Ah good point. The obvious part is that the child doesn’t have a choice in the situation having not developed reasoning, but as you’ve pointed out the potentially worse part is that they don’t develope those reasoning skills as a result.