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Re:Technical Debt of the West by ithkuil on Sunday February 20, 2022 @12:22PM (#30407309)
"With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion."

  -- Steven Weinberg
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Re:Technical Debt of the West by disgruntledphd2 on Sunday February 20, 2022 @03:41PM (#30409099)
s/religion/ideology.
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Re:Technical Debt of the West by ithkuil on Sunday February 20, 2022 @04:11PM (#30409298)
You could say that a religion is a special case of an ideology.
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Re:Technical Debt of the West by disgruntledphd2 on Monday February 21, 2022 @03:44AM (#30413342)
Yeah basically. Personally I think religion is useful, but it's definitely a kind of ideology.
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