Does the People's Republic of China now have a state religion?

Btw I am staying away from the other room today. I just need some space from it.

Won't be long but some went too far and they don't recognize that they did for the most part.

Take your time. Some of them are there just for the sport. When they're losing, they get nastier. I could fill a level teaspoon with the sincerity of those posters.

I never felt so unwelcomed there before.

And the line that if we defend ourselves against the delusion claim we are showing our privilege was just priceless.

Either all beliefs are equally valid or no beliefs are valid at all. Either we except the suicides at Jonestown as legitimate religious practice or we have to condemn the local non-denominational Church as delusional.

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get believers to abandon their faith.

They might use different terms, and will deny it when asked, but of course that's their goal in some cases. If you believe religion to be pirmarily a source of evil, it just makes sense that you would want to get people to be less religious.

It drives me nuts when a few of them - particularly dishonest ones - suggest "We just want to raise awareness of how religion can impact politics." So very disingenuous. As if in 90% of the cases believers aren't on the same page. There's only a few minor areas of disagreement politically, and yet it's necessary for them to bring into the religion forum continuous attacks on DU Believers. The goal is to belittle and minimize the practice of religion and belief.

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Some seem to think all believers are alike and we believe alike.

And you do not see believers trying to convert others.

It would be completely inappropriate.

is a form of self-aggrandizement. It's not even really the big-fish-in-a-little pond syndrome. It's more like guppies who've convinced themselves that they're barracudas.

The difference is that our beliefs allow us to respect those who think differently than we do.

But they do have a point when it comes to society as a whole.

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especially among fundamentalists. But there is very little outright discrimination or persecution comparable to what LGBT's, Jews and Muslims, and people of color have experienced.

Between a Primitive Baptist and Teilhard de Chardin.