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Religion. All of them are cults. Every single fucking one.
Nothing. No other hobby even comes close to the death, genocide, rape, murder, and hate generated by that type of religious cult. It's every single year, too. Every single year religion tops its hate, greed, and pain inflicted on everyone.
Your particular brand of invisible sky wizard is different from my particular brand of invisible sky wizard. Die heretic!
I'm pretty sure that religion was mostly used as a kind of motivational tool for the masses, but without religion there probably would have been another excuse why the enemy needs to die
It's always about resources and shit anyway
I don't think anyone would call their religion a hobby, though.
Many people engage with the cults as a hobby though. Many of my relatives would probably agree that's about their level of involvement, but then they pay in to the beast that does all of the culty shit...
They said hobbies not belief systems.
For a lot of people, when you look at how they spend their time, it is clear that their religion is both their belief system AND their hobby.
Think of the "Bible study" types. They've turned it into a hobby-like activity. Some I knew growing up clearly had nothing else. It was their hobby.
It's not a hobby. They're practicing their faith...it's such a huge difference.
If you spend more time to consider and think about the differences between spirituality and religion, you'd see what I'm getting at. There's a blurring of lines sure, but a lot of these religious activities are not at all necessary for their beliefs, and merely a choice that fulfills them in a similar manner as other hobbies.
In that case it degenerates into superstition...i think
Choosing to believe in one set of imaginary friends over another- or none- is most certainly a hobby by every definition.
It is not essential for life. It is not required by law. People willingly choose and actively continue choosing to engage in the activities in their free time, and report positive feelings from doing so. When doubts arise, other members of the cult try hard to sway them to stay, often using threats. That’s a hobby. And a cult.
I actuallly don't think you can understand this...
I wouldn't call a cult a belief system.
It is, it deviates from the norm and demands an irrational amount of obedience. Than it nests on top of the previous beilefs of the vitctim.
What a fun answer!
Yeah seriously. It's pretty severely missed the point of this thread.
Ironic that it looks like someone came through and downvotes every answer in this thread other than this one, considering. It'd be pretty great if the mods banned whoever that was.
oh no not the downvotes how will my children eat! listen to yourself for fucks sake
To be clear, at the time I made that comment, every top-level response in this thread had precisely one downvote, apart from two. One had many downvotes ("Most of them"), obviously just not very constructive. The other was this one. It's obviously the result of some troll.
and what a ghastly troll that must have been!! did you sleep ok?
Edgelord atheist mad at christianity and islam: "every religion is genocide and hate, and I hate them."
Buddhists , jains, pagans, etc: "hey excuse you buddy."
I mean, Buddhists just did a genocide in Myanmar. They have a cleaner track record than Abrahamic faiths for sure, but if you spend serious time in actual Buddhist places it fills the exact same societal roles.
Neopaganism is a bit of an odd one out in that list, because it's a newly invented thing.
I usually limit my ire to Abrahamic religions (though Buddhism's track record isn't completely clean).
I don't know enough about the history of Jainism to say one way or another, though given what I know about it (ALL life is sacred), i imagine they're probably the closest an organized religion can get to being unharmful.
Baha'is would as well, but nobody ever remembers them. The one time I saw a question about TBF on Jeopardy, it was the Final Jeopardy question, and no one got it right.