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		smackeyacky on Sept 26, 2021 [flagged] \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Science of the Benefits of Religion This is 100% wrong.

truetraveller on Sept 26, 2021 [flagged] [2 more]

IMHO, this is a specious statement. [Edited to remove flamewar].

smackeyacky on Sept 26, 2021 | [–]

You made the assertion that "being good" requires religious faith. This is demonstrably not true. Is that better?

I would make the assertion that a religious person who is only "being good" because they are afraid of divine punishment is a good working definition of a sociopath.

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