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What was a time when you drank the kool aid? (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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For those who aren't familiar with the term, it means believing something that probably shouldn't be believed, or being influenced to believe something that's not necessarily in your best interests.

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[–] 1 point 10 months ago

Perhaps. Irrationality in itself isn't evil though. We're all irrational about somethings sometimes, that's just what it is to be human. We just be meat sacks powered by cornflakes, it would be weird if we weren't irrational.

My biggest problem with religion is the bigotry, religion certainly doesn't have a monopoly on it though, and antitheism doesn't make you immune. Antitheism is fertile ground for bigotry and the irrational justifications for it.

Anti-intellectualism, and the harm spread from anti-intellectualism, is awful though, no arguments from me. A lot of evil can arrive from believing one is "rational" while they're blind to their own limits of perspective.

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