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Most of the time when people say they have an unpopular opinion, it turns out it's actually pretty popular.

Do you have some that's really unpopular and most likely will get you downvoted?

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[โ€“] eddy@infosec.pub 98 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Religion is nothing more then social engineering on a grand scale.

[โ€“] zer0nix@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In which fundamentalist hell hole is that an unpopular idea?

[โ€“] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not. OTOH it's nonsense. The social engineering came late. First it was a primitive attempt to explain the unknown and give meaning to the meaningless.

[โ€“] scott@lem.free.as 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure. But it's the 21st century now. We can drop it.

We should. It's not likely to happen any time soon, though.

[โ€“] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

America sadly lol

[โ€“] MJBrune@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

I agree and have a follow up opinion. It's not a bad thing. Religion was created to share and make people believe that certain things are bad because those things used to hurt or kill people. It's social engineering to essentially try to make people better at living longer and happier lives. Sadly, a lot of religion broke out into more and more bad actors that used it for greed and personal gain.

[โ€“] ef9357@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Cult + time = religion.