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impatientperson posted...

But a lot of that uses religion as an easy way to grab people. Religion is a very powerful tool that you can use to sell an idea.

You can, but most of the money-related ills facing the world have nothing to do with religion. They're more about people exploiting other people and/or the planet for money, and you don't need religion to do that.

Jen0125 posted...

Adjl what religions preach and what their followers do are two totally different things.

That's axiomatically false. If a follower of a religion doesn't follow what that religion preaches, they aren't a follower of the religion. Literally by definition.

shipwreckers posted...

Atheists on the other hand (especially on the internet), tend to reach others with condescension at best and hate at worst, in an effort to make religious people feel like idiots. They don't give a s*** about the outcome of religious people.

Most atheist proselytizing is indeed more about self-righteous condescension, largely from teenagers who just discovered Dawkins and feel super-duper smart, but it is important to recognize that most atheists don't push it on other people, much like most religious people don't push it on other people. It's no more fair to paint all atheists with the same brush than it is to act like all Christians are Mormons, or like all Muslims are terrorists.
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