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A Georgia woman has died after an abortion ban delayed lifesaving care
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I am religious. I like having a non-scientific justification for my non-empircal beliefs.
I think you have an issue with people using religion as a shield for their crappy behavior. Controlling someone else is vile, using your religion to do it is unbelievablely cruel.
Similar to cops, there’s gonna be big acab type “all religious are assholes” soon if the good apples don’t start taking care of the bad apples.
Unfortunately the good apples and bad apples are generally in entirely different barrels (churches), so the good apples don't have much chance to influence the bad ones
BUUUUUUUULLSHIT
There are a lot of good religious people out there, from many religions, who aren’t forcing their way of life on others, who spend their time trying to be loving and care for their neighbor. What precisely they’re supposed to do about the “bad apples” of religious people isn’t very clear. I can’t exactly report the Southern Baptist Church to Internal Religious Affairs.
I am not responsible for the views of other religious people. I’m responsible for my own views. I can argue with those who disagree with me, but I cannot force them to stop being controlling assholes.
Maybe, just maybe, making assumptions about people based on associations they may not actually have is a bad idea. Maybe the world is more complicated than that.
The problem is people using it to control others. Religion was important before for human development. I am unsure of its value now, when most places have rules and laws in place to keep people in check.
Humans have a right to their thoughts and feelings including the weird ones. We have to protect that right. What they do not have a right to is control over anyone else on the basis of that. That is the problem here.
The carceral side of the mental health system still exists and still hurts a lot of people, mostly poor and marginalized ones. People still die and get abused and lose their rights because of it. So it's not a thing to wish for the expansion of.