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Originally Posted by dar512
But I'll add that it is never caused by religion. It is caused by prudes who use religion as an excuse to restrict people from seeing something they're afraid of.
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Maybe "casued by" is overly restrictive, in a semantic sense. Rephrase: if you removed religion from the equation, would it still be happening? Another way: would this be happening without the involvement of religion? You yourself have stated the cause as being involved with religion. My point (sorry if I garbled it) was simply that.
I'm not big on hair-splitting between "religion, ideally" and "religion, in practice" - as I said, I'm a realist. When I say
religion, I assume everyone knows that I am referring to
the actual thing that exists in the world.