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My problem with any religion is hypocrisy, othering, suggesting that gender identity, skin color, enslavement, physical, sexual, psychological abuse etc. is divinely ordained. I don't particularly even care that it's belief in fairy tales. Placebo meds work wonders, and so does the ability to gaslight ourselves, to an extent.

As for my own religious identification, it doesn't even matter if the deity is real, the overall message is good, and I can relate it back to actual Jewish teachings to better understand it and it changes my current understanding and interpretation and it's very different to what I daresay most of us have been taught (although I have serious disagreement with parts of Judaism and understand it is rewritten ancient Sumerian religion). I'm really into Jewish and Christian mysticism, and it's changed my life and mental health for the better. I'm also ok with most religions within the parameters I've set forth. And finally, to borrow a quote from a liberal journalist, whose father was a protestant minister, "religion makes a good man good and a bad man bad."

I've known Muslim people who are really great people and some that were hateful and evil. The same as Christians, Hindus, Jews, Buddhists, Taoists (exception of those adhering to I Guan Tao), Gnostics, Satanists (excepting Laveyan), and atheists.