• BillyClark@piefed.social
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    4 months ago

    Religious people aren’t bothered or surprised at all when their prayers don’t come true. On the other hand, if their cell phone or car or air conditioner suddenly stops working without warning, they’re absolutely shocked and dismayed.

    My point is that even the most religious people actually believe in science far more than they believe in their religion. They’re just too stupid to realize it.

    • Chaos@lemmy.ml
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      29 days ago

      Lucky for me all the religious people I know are into science and only trust science and technology to make a change in anything in life but in about creation and unforseen things deep in their heads they just want to believe…

    • socsa@piefed.social
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      3 months ago

      There’s a reason why “virtue signalling” was a term originally coined to describe faith behaviors.

  • cally [he/they]@pawb.social
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    4 months ago

    Side topic: I think Pascal’s Wager is stupid because what if there is a god and it only sends believers to hell? What if there is a good and it sends everyone to hell no matter what? What if there is a god and it didn’t make an afterlife and won’t interfere in actual life, so why even bother? What if there’s a flying spaghetti monster out there and that’s what god is?

    /rant

  • 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    can we stop with this early 2010s debate?

    it’s bullshit all the way. Science is also used to create weapons which creates record numbers of amputees, and religion is still used as propaganda to justify those wars. And even with prosthetic limbs, access might be limited based on profitability.

    the main difference is community support, class issues, capitalism…

    Science and technology advancement by itself is dangerous if society doesn’t advance as well. regardless of the specific religion or lack thereof.

    Saying that as an absolute science nerd with a STEM PhD,