• NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    But it's religion that brainwashes a huge portion of them to blindly follow and obey even when it hurts them or isn't good for them.

    Take away religion and the conservative base vanishes. They wouldn't be able to win elections.

    Religion no longer blocks the way to progress, things improve, people don't get sucked into the conservative rabbit hole the same way.

    Slowly but surely, at least what we consider conservatives today and in the past would cease to exist.

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      I wouldn't be so confident that the removal of religion would be such a panacea for humanity. These social structures developed for a reason and things would likely appear to fill the vacuum. People already raise up companies and cults of personality in place of formal religion as it is. Even just being a republican party supporter has a certain degree of cult like devotion.

      If your view of a conservative is a person of deep religious conviction, then sure, I guess.

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          Humans collectively have a lot of pent up craziness, angst, and existential terror… and it's got to go somewhere.

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        I don't think all conservatives are deeply religious, but it's the religious that prop them up. So much hate and death in human existence stems from religion. That hate breeds hate even outside the religious, quickening its spread.

        If it was gone, humanity would finally be able to begin the healing process.

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          I have no qualms about the dissolution of religious structures, but I feel like you're underestimating humanity's ability to self-sabotage when envisioning such a rose tinted portrayal of a post-religion society.

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              Are we talking about active abolition…? You want to just say "no religion anymore" to any and every person you consider religious?

              "I'm kind of spiritual sometimes…" may lead to some grey areas. Surely secular education and encouragement is the key.