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by colechristensen 1054 days ago
People blamed organized religion for this kind of thing but it’s pretty clear theology not required. The spectrum of pepperpots to moral crusaders is quite present with no religion at all. Quite possibly worse than before.

At least your organized religions tended to have a nontrivial portion of their teachings about being generally nice to each other.

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I've been noticing this a lot too. When I was younger in the earlier days of the internet, it always seemed like it was the religious ones who were judging everyone and demanding they accommodate their beliefs and moral outrages. Nowadays, there is a new crowd that doesn't even go to church but is somehow worse. It's the new religion
"God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble." – James 4:6, 1Peter 5:5, and many such instances throughout the bible.