• CodexArcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    21 days ago

    “Science” doesn’t do or advocate anything, it’s just a method. It’s like pitting Religion against Object Oriented Programming (They’re the same picture)

    Anyway, great shitpost

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      21 days ago

      I’ve always wondered about this, because not only are they not mutually exclusive, they don’t really fight unless someone really wants to create an issue.

      “It turns out the Earth revolves around the Sun, which in turn rotates around a galactic center.”

      “But we’ve been teaching that the Earth is the center of the universe. What will we tell people?”

      “Well, we all thought it was the center, but it turns out it wasn’t. Does anything in your religion specifically say we’re the center?”

      “No…”

      “Then I guess we all found out together. Also, why are you even teaching stuff like that? The movement of celestial bodies seems a weird topic to be discussing in church.”

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        21 days ago

        Yeah, the catholic church encouraged the study of the heliocentric idea, right about until Galileo used his scientific papers to directly criticize and mock the pope.

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    21 days ago

    As a anti religious person this meme ignores the reality of science to present its “ideal” while not extending the same to religion.

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    I’d say the latter is just dogmatism, which exists in both science and religion. As a radical skeptic, I simply suspend judgment about any claim — sometimes questioning it, other times engaging it for the sake of practicality.

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      20 days ago

      bingo.

      plenty of science, scientsits, and science worshippers are dogmatic about science. scientism is a thing often leads to the same absurdities as extreme religious belief does

  • bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de
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    21 days ago

    Not only religion - narcissistic (and other kinds of) assholes exhibit the same behaviour. Does this mean that all assholes are religious?