• CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    According to the 2012 Global Religious Landscape survey by the Pew Research Center, 75.2% of the Europe residents are Christians, 18.2% are irreligious, atheist or agnostic, 5.9% are Muslims and 0.2% are Jews, 0.2% are Hindus, 0.2% are Buddhist, and 0.1% adhere to other religions.

    That is quite the persecution complex you have there if you believe 80+% of the people in Europe are in a cult.

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      9 months ago

      We’re using fancy words now to seem smart?
      Works better if you know what they mean.

      And I don’t have any problem believing that vast majorities of a population can fall to a cult.
      I mean in the middle ages people didn’t even have a choice about their religion and I hope you are not trying to tell me crusades and literal witch hunts are not cult behaviour.

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        9 months ago

        We’re using fancy words now to seem smart? Works better if you know what they mean.

        Okay:

        Cancer
        Cult

        So now that we’ve gotten definitions out of the way, can we acknowledge what century we are in?

        I mean in the middle ages people didn’t even have a choice about their religion and I hope you are not trying to tell me crusades and literal witch hunts are not cult behaviour.

        At which point did I say 80% of Europeans are currently involved in Crusades or Literal Witch Hunts?

        My point was currently, right now, 80% of the population believe in one religion or another. Support for left wing ideals, such as social programs and rights for LGBTQ+ far exceeds 20% of the population. The problem is not religion. The problem is hateful closed minded people who use religion as an excuse to be hateful and close minded.