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you can play the game of "but thats not true religion" and of course there are higher aspects and more refined thinking.
but for me, religion was being TOLD that there is a god and a devil who literally exist. you don't get to discuss when you are being told about this, you are interrogated with questions that ask you to regurgitate the lies you've just been told. if you cough or say the wrong thing, then expect to be subject to humiliation. if you say you're atheist be prepared to be bullied.
you are told, very specifically, what the afterlife is. even though it doesnt make sense and is based on lies, you are told it is real. you are told that science proves the bible based on whatever fallacious concoction of bullshit the idiots 'teaching' you have heard from their church. you are not allowed to know about other religions. you can ask but you won't be told about them.
this is my experience growing up in a hardcore protestant country.
the christians here LITERALLY believe in witches and the "dark arts". they think these satanic demons are lurking around every corner of this country. that's what they tell you - with no sense that its metaphorical.
christofascist bumpkins, fundie authoritarian scum, they run this country. liberals are the minority, in government and everywhere else.
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