(fallen london stamps by I feel like a good rule of thumb is to never take angry rants about "religion in general" at face value lmao
during my last visit to their place, my partners (jewish) and I (grew up in a household most usamericans would call atheist but, like so many chinese households, was inescapably confucian) were talking about what growing up under our respective cultures was like, and one of the things we discussed was how mainstream american thought seems to perceive religion as this like, thing that is just about Which God You Believe In and What Kind Of Holidays You Observe and What Religious Building You Worship At when it's like. it's also, culture? community? a way of life? a philosophy of doing right by others? all sorts of things that might not even involve a god?
(my partners knew a rabbi who was an atheist! and while heaven and gods exist in confucianism they are more like, treated as, kinda symbols for the kind of exalted life and harmonious social order that humans on earth should strive to attain. and even wrt usamerican christianity I've encountered people for whom the question of whether god exists and the events of the bible Actually Happened were far less important than understanding the humanity of their faith)
food for thought
