Recently heard about Rajneeshpuram and it got me wondering

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[+] -8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

If we wanted to protect people from cults we would ban all orginized religion.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Today, the government has banned all organized religion in order to curtail the fomenting of radical ideas in the isolation of cults throughout the country.

    Feel free to calmly and scientifically, of your own free will, help us usher in a new era of rationlism and skeptical inquiry.

    To this end, all entities receiving government funds will be reviewed for spiritual and dogmatic thinking. School library indexes will be purged of media containing unscientific themes which could lead to disorders of thought, titles include Harry Potter and The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

    Additionally, the department of rational authority has banned the following archetypes of delusion:

    Churches

    Ashrams

    Corporate wellness retreats

    Reiki practices

    Yoga studios

    And any organization that uses the following words: Self care, hollistic, and manifesting.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    How do you suggest we go about doing that?

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It's exactly what it sounds like.

    No official places of worship.

    If you want to have a connection with god then read your book and have your connection at home.

    You don't need a community to worship, and they shouldn't be allowed to form religious communities that then fuck with our societies.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    So we throw out freedom of assembly, freedom of association, freedom of speech and freedom of religion? Easy!

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