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Re:Least Religious Countries 2021 by ben_palaskas on Sunday July 11, 2021 @11:57AM (#27801868)
That is weird because it doesn't offer salvation or answers for questions of existence or purpose or cosmology
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Re:Least Religious Countries 2021 by diego_moita on Sunday July 11, 2021 @12:05PM (#27801952)
Read "Sapiens", by Yuval Harari. He extensively discusses that.
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Re:Least Religious Countries 2021 by mistermann on Sunday July 11, 2021 @12:43PM (#27802381)
In the US, politics (Democracy) seems to be widely considered a "sacred institution", literally. If you observe how people talk about it in forums, this seems very true to me.
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