• @RealFknNito
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    27 months ago

    Nah, it really isn’t a problem. At all actually. It doesn’t matter if every single person believes in a different gemstone and that the gemstone will bestow upon them magical blessings for being a good person. If that is what they need to be good people, to motivate them, to inspire them to be better - who gives a fuck if it ‘normalizes magic’?

    I’m not so concerned with being right that I’d let us live in misery to be closer to ‘intellectualism’. Not everyone will find other methods to cope and their belief doesn’t harm anyone. I think you have to be a genuinely dank and dreary person to want to rob people of something like Santa Claus because it ‘normalizes magic’ while I’m sitting here hoping people just try to be better with the vague promise of presents.

    • @Cryophilia
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      27 months ago

      Religious people vote. That’s why it matters.

      • @RealFknNito
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        -17 months ago

        As long as they don’t use the magic gemstones to decide how they vote, it doesn’t matter.

        • @Cryophilia
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          17 months ago

          Their preachers tell them how to vote, and their preachers tell them to take rights away from women and minorities. To not worry about climate change because the Rapture is coming. To give all their money to Trump. They hurt our society.

          • @RealFknNito
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            17 months ago

            Everything has grifters. Elon Musk hasn’t whispered a word of religion yet people will vote the way he tells them to. Magic has nothing to do with stupidity.

            • @Cryophilia
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              -17 months ago

              It’s orders of magnitude more common among religious people.