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The world’s largest democracy is collapsing before our eyes (www.vox.com)

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[–] Amir@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Religion is done for

This is not because of capitalism. Religion has been used as a justification to extort money - look at the Catholic church in the Medieval times. If capitalists could make you believe that giving them money had any correlation with the afterlife they would gladly do so.

[–] averagedrunk@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

One plenary indulgence, please.