• switcheroo@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Next up: honey your skin is too brown. The MAGAts want you to be lighter before they’ll accept me so could you please bleach your skin while I’m out visiting Kirk’s widow?

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    That whole speech was just weird. He starts out by saying that he’s always been somewhat “agnostic”, which is why he and his wife get along so well, because they can both just talk about this stuff, openly with each other.

    And then he says, “That’s why we decided to raise our kids Christian”…and I was like, wut? Mutherfucker, that’s not what being “openly agnostic” implies, at all. That doesn’t even make logically consistent sense.

    And then he concludes that he’s always hoped his wife would convert to Christianity too? JFC. Nothing he says is for real. Anyone listening to this asshole talk, and can find a way to nod along to it, is not actually listening to what he’s saying.

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      Anyone listening to this asshole talk, and can find a way to nod along to it, is not actually listening to what he’s saying.

      56% of our population is at least partially illiterate; reading level 2 or below.

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    Religion is the most destructive human invention.

    You should be able to hold yourself to beliefs you openly choose to impose on yourself, and help others who choose similarly without external coercion, but the moment choice is absent or removed, its legitimacy evaporates.

    It can be an effective for social cohesion in juvenile societies, but has a use-by date that rivals raw milk.

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      Religion was necessary to get us to this point, so I don’t know how you can call it a destructive invention unless you’re arguing that civilization was a mistake. Its use-by date was in the thousands of years, it was very useful as a technology to organize society for a very long time. It has lost its usefulness, and become backwards compared to newer technologies, but it was a great idea.

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        3 days ago

        I think we got civilization despite religion. Religion has been fighting progress all along.

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        I consider religion to be the most destructive human invention because most of the destructive actions performed by humans are inspired, influenced, or justified by it.

        Destruction isn’t inherently a bad thing in moderation, but no one can legitimately claim religion has a track record of moderation.

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          I think fire has religion beat. People stopped burning witches, but they still burn people for entirely secular reasons.

          Also, you know, forging blades, firing guns, running combustion engines, etc. Fire enabled war on a scale religion could never match, and as religion wanes fire remains supreme.

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              The technology to create fire is absolutely an invention. Let me guess, you don’t think electricity, nuclear fission, or antibiotics are inventions either? They exist in nature, after all, so they’re merely discoveries. 🙄

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          Kind of, but religious law wasn’t just about the afterlife. People believed their gods would punish them in this life if they didn’t follow religious law, and that their gods would reward them in this life if they were obedient and followed all the right rules. It helped that the punishment of the gods would be literally carried out by soldiers or executioners. Religious law was also government law.

          The skycake was a later development. In the early days, the law of the gods was the law of the land.