• @Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee
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      5 days ago

      It is kind of amazing how selective the justice system is. There is a man who spent 30+ years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread. Apparently he had a criminal record prior and that meant he had to be thrown in prison for that long for any subsequent crime… but I find that utter bullshit.

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          15 days ago

          Yeah I am aware of that. Civil religions, political religions, and economic religions.

          I remember the first half of the 2000s, back when I went on many atheist sites of the era that scoffed at organized religion and Christianity, Islam, and whatever… but the true bit of depression dawned on me when I realized that not only was the world not being liberated from religion, but other religions were being seamlessly integrated into them, even if those religions held highly contradictory beliefs to the originals…