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I think it's pretty likely we're living in a simulation.

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I think that the religions that specifically believe they concretely know and are capable of comprehending something on the level of god are insanely egotistical and not in a good way. The underlining commentary always seems to convey that humanity is the center of the universe and I hate that.

H.P. Lovecraft was pretty spooked in some ways but his commentary on just how gullible and self-important humanity is in regards to spirituality was pretty legit.

I know that some Buddhist and Daoist movements in China had similar radical egalitarian teachings
but these idealistic and utopian movements will never succeed in becoming the predominant power
basically idealists have to get out

very old Buddhist and Daoist movements I should add, not modern ones

I guess I’m some sort of a Christian, maybe atheist.

I don’t think it affects my politics much, I mean I guess since I got a relatively lutheran upbringing I always really fucking hated hypocritical, exploitative right-wing Christians, so maybe that made me lean left at some point.

I don’t think religion necessarily harms one’s marxism. Our church, at least, teaches that science is all good and true; just a way to familiarize ourselves with God’s creation, marxist analysis shouldn’t be any different.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignosticism

Atheist.
I honestly believe that the belief in god is a sign of mental immaturity. I know that leads to a million fedora tips, but fuck man, just the first word led to that.

I'm not religious (though I'm a theist), but the anti-religious nature of the general non-liberal left IMO is a detriment.

It's a different form of purity spiraling to idpolers, but IME it's another form of purity spiralling.

I like Gaddafi's Green Book and (I've yet to read) Abdullah Ocalan's Democratic Confederalism because it respects tradition and religion, whilst promoting egalitarianism.

Religious veiws are incompatible with materialist ones.