religion keeps people happy with being miserable in this life on the promise of paradise in the next, its not complicated is it? - person avoids the question entirely, its out of the scope of possible knowledge, give no more thought to it and focus on this life
Religion keeps people happy by showing them that there's more to life than instant gratification and consoomer culture. Additionally the greatest income inequality in say America is in California, a very pro atheist state. The "smart" leftists continue to vote for democrats that continue to fuck them in the ass, see what "Biden" is doing right now. Another example is the various communist states of the past where atheism was pushed, and a select few had vasts amounts of wealth, while the majority lived in extreme poverty.
you are creating a false dichotomy, atheists are just as bad as religious people, both groups believe something that is unproveable
religion has historically been used as a tool to control people just like science is now, covid is the perfect example, most people need a way to simplify the world because they cant stare in to the void and laugh at the absurdity of our existence
in order to really understand it you need a little extra context, religion = religio = accepted truth vs occult = occulta = the unaccepted truth, though out history people can be divided in to two categories, those who know and those who dont, go and read the corpus hermeticum and see what i mean, hear me pomander and i shall make you the fisher of men, and on a totes unrelated note the pope wears a ring with a fisherman on it
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