• Jay@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Wonder how much of it is religion showing its true colors and people realizing it’s about control and money, not about being a good person.

    • nymnympseudonym@piefed.social
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      21 hours ago

      As a person who does not need to be afraid of a Sky Daddy in order to be nice to people, I take it as a personal fucking insult when religious people even suggest their credulity gives them some kind of moral edge.

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      23 hours ago

      That, and the reason it’s happening to a larger extent in the US than elsewhere is that the US is pretty much the only place where the prosperity gospel has any significance.

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      22 hours ago

      You assume many Americans aren’t considering money itself a form of god and therefore that having vast wealth is therefore virtue

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        16 hours ago

        god is dead, we killed it thousands of years ago and put the stock/financial markets in their place