• GHiLA@sh.itjust.works
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    7 hours ago

    puts down atheism pamphlet

    …later, we will find you and tell you god isn’t real.

    Did you ask?

    It never mattered. We were going to tell you anyway.

    • Soggy@lemmy.world
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      Our whole-ass society is structured around Christian norms. Holidays, liquor laws, businesses closing on Sunday, loads of idioms and turns-of-phrase, it is pervasive and so normalized that any deviance is seen as shocking. (At least we aren’t one of the countries where heresy is still an actual crime)