"He's leaving the country." This is a kind of trumpeted news in our time. As once in the ruler's court. "His Majesty is getting dressed!" "The king is taking a walk in the park today." Or when the doorman taps his halberd to signal "His Grace the Duke of York in person!"
Although inflation is strong in this area. Too many important people have already been written about leaving the country, who have since only turned out to have stayed - defying the terror. Inflation is further helped by the fact that the click-hunting sites use this headline even if the article reveals that he is only visiting, on vacation, negotiating, paying a visit or receiving his inheritance. Not so long ago, ATV even reported that Péter Márki-Zay was leaving the country, and then I just saw that the latest news about him was that "the municipality led by Márki-Zay received a fine of 32 million."
Now the county mayor is causing so much fear in some people that they will leave the country.
I heard this with my own ears the last time I had a beer with a friend. After mass, we went for a beer - because both are part of the good tradition, and we could also see in the old county that the two pillars of the settlement are the church and the pub. Young people are talking at the table next to us. About the return of the terrifying Middle Ages, about religion, and about feudal remains,
"People who consider themselves religious are trying to take away the right from non-religious people that they can honestly love their country, that they can be decent, conscientious, good people, just as there are good and bad people among people who call themselves believers. The real fault lines are not between believers and atheists, gays and straights, not even right or left, but between sensible and nonsensical people. I see the senselessness in these measures. It's lucky that I'm leaving the country in the fall anyway. "
I pour the beer and molasses.
How deafening, but honestly. I don't understand why atheists don't care? They don't believe in something, it's fine to laugh if they want, but they defiantly prove themselves. It's like Zolika doesn't like the band Depeche Mode, and it's not enough for her not to listen to it, but she goes up to strangers on the street and tells them that the band Depeche Mode is not good.
Believers also testify, I don't dispute it. But believers defend something they believe is there. Atheists attack what they believe does not exist. This orator here at the next table also wants to leave the country, but it doesn't matter to him whether he is a county or not.
When I hear things like this, I always feel like I've fallen into the conversation of kindergarteners who are discovering for the first time that there is no Santa Claus. They realized this. They already "know". Because they are not like the "crowd".
Oh my God.
Religion is a social construct. Not primarily the presence or absence of Mr. Beard. A society in which religion declines becomes weaker, crime increases, population declines, and something else. (The boys in kindergarten don't know this yet, it's enough for them to discover the absence of Santa Claus.) There is no spiritual vacuum! Where there are holes, another, more viable one flows in, and it hides the many little "I doubt Santa Claus" kindergartners. This is the social background of religion, and therefore it is foolish to rebel against it, even for a non-believer.
It's not just stupid, it's harmful.
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