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Dozens of stray dogs already have a home thanks to the priest.

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[–] Rachelhazideas@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

'The church' isn't the monolith most atheist lemmings think it is. There are more than a dozen denominations and a whole spectrum of political leanings within each one.

I'm not religious, just tired of blanket statements like this that make it hard for us to be taken seriously. Theists are humans and humans come in all sorts of fucked up. Religion just brings out the worst in them. That doesn't strip it's significance to believers. For many, it's what keeps them going in hard times.

Unitarian universalists are a good example of how being religious doesn't mean you need to be a nut job, a predator, or passively support one. If you're goal is to deradicalize, you are much more likely to convince a religious person to be more tolerant than to throw away religion altogether.