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What hill are you willing to die on even if no one in your life agrees with you? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago by Zonefive@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Water usage is probably my biggest. Living in a high desert, my wife and MIL see no problem with filling one side of the sink with hot soapy water to wash a few dishes because “that’s just how I’ve always done it”, to watering the grass and plants for hours. All of this makes me mental.

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[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

People who believe in any religion are the same as dormant terrorist cells. One can have perfectly formal relationships with them on a daily basis, but given the right conditions, they become a huge, possibly lethal, risk.

[–] ContriteErudite@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Agreed. The amount of down votes you're receiving shows that, even on lemmy, >25% of users have an immediate and ingrained distaste to others sharing the thought that religion can be dangerous. The religious hold their own religion in such high regards, not realizing that, for the most part, they were never given a choice of which religion, let alone the choice to not be religious at all.

"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion" - Steven Weinberg

[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wonder how many of the people who downvote me have people in their family who will be sent to die in Iran for the lunacy of a bunch of Christians excited for Armageddon.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

consider antivaxxer parents that stick with their beliefs despite their children who died of easily preventable diseases to find your answers.

[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That really happens there? My god. Well, after all priests come in many different uniforms. Sometimes even sounding like a screeching cabinet like RFK Jr.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That really happens there? My god.

some part of me wants to live in your world for this; i assumed that everyone knew that this was the case since it's on cnn/bbc/al jazeera/rt/etc.

[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, I have a bed sofa. Dunno about refugee status, but this is some Carrie's mom-level stuff.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

It goes so far beyond the realm of fiction; Americans are literally exporting this asshatter to latin america