• Dr. Moose
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      1 year ago

      I’m just perplexed how kids are still religious in 2024 with vast amount of free information out there. I thought this cult bullshit was about to end with my generation when we got free, unrestricted information exchange invented.

      I guess you can’t fix irrationality with rationality huh

      • @FractalsInfinite@sh.itjust.works
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        From my perspective its because people won’t change their beliefs unless they stop benefiting the believer. For people who live in a religious community, there church’s sunday social event is enjoyable, there friends are all religious, there denomination provides a entire moral framework and worldview they don’t even need to think about. Confirmation bias plays a major role in preventing alternate thought to block out other worldviews.

        Only when someone does not gain much benefit from there religion or has a important part of there religion proven wrong, can they process alternative ideologies and either switch to a more useful denomination or stop believing entirely.

      • @Lemming6969@lemmy.world
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        11 year ago

        Most people are not actually people, they are people-like imposter automatons and they are dumb as hell and can be manipulated like clay.

      • TFO Winder
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        01 year ago

        Religion is not always a cult. All religions are not like Christianity.

        See Hinduism, Buddhism, confussionism

    • @ohlaph@lemmy.world
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      01 year ago

      Exactly. My nephews seem to complain about the shit their dad told them to vote for. It’s rather hilarious.

      • @TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        The fuck happened to the rebelliousness of youth?

        Should kids be doing exactly not whatever their parents tell them to?

        Kids these days… GET ON MY LAWN!!

        • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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          11 year ago

          The fuck happened to the rebelliousness of youth?

          Pure propaganda. Kids are more than happy to follow behind their older peers and always have been.

          It’s “rebellion” if the kids literally anything at all. Speak up? Question anything? Show any kind of agency? Mimic what your elders are doing? You’re out of control.