• Glitchington@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    You’re on an atheist board, preaching…

    Stockholm syndrome describes the psychological condition of a victim who identifies with and empathizes with their captor or abuser and their goals.

    I hate the greedy, destructive society we’re in, but I also see how people have leveraged faith as a platform to make things the way they are.

    • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@feddit.de
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      7 months ago

      but I also see how people have leveraged faith as a platform to make things the way they are.

      So by this logic, would you reject human rights and democracy, as they are regularly abused by western imperialism as a reason to invade countries and steal their ressources, furthering the very order you hate? Or would you consider communism or socialism an alternative, but then run into the problems of how Stalin, Mao and others used them to justify horrible crimes too?