Because some people use it as a thin veil over their actions doesn’t mean it’s the root cause
I firmly disagree with this premise, I think religion’s particular mix of social othering and righteous justification are the root of a great deal of evil in the world.
You have to get kinda close for spell-check to step in and it’s really bad at fixing problems at the beginning of a word.
What a religion calls for is almost never what it enables.
how is the world a better place because the banned prayer rooms in universities?
I don’t think public funds should support any religion, and I don’t think universities should support unsubstantiated claims.
Antisemitism doesn’t happen without religion. Think about everything downstream of the Judaism/Christianity/Islam splits. Think about the impact of The Church being the de facto cultural force in Europe for a millennium. Think about how much harder it is to whip a population into supporting your expensive conquest without a Divine Right or Moral Imperative. Sikhism exists because of how shitty life was under Islam and Hinduism in the region, their current “mostly chill” status does not negate the past suffering.
And in a broader sense, consider how much fraud exists because people are willing to accept claims not backed by evidence. The normalization of magical thinking is probably as harmful as the actual power wielded by entities like the Catholic Church.
I don’t think the good comes anywhere close to balancing the evils justified by religion.
I think they wanted “sovereign”
Corporatocracy is part of, and the logical conclusion of, any economic system that values private profit. Capitalism is not the pure, uncorrupted version of this. (And from where I’m sitting you’re a bootlicker too for takes like “he built that company with his own sweat and he deserves to reap the benefits of such.” It conpletely ignores the labor everyone else put into that company, from the employees to the supply chain to the tax-funded infrastructure.)
It’s cursed because comic writers couldn’t come up with a better way to explain why the city can’t be fixed by the world’s smartest billionaire.
I assumed it was to cope with heavy snowfall but that makes sense too.