• NutWrench@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    If God suddenly appeared and said, “I have returned and I am very displeased!” and then he made all the televangelists and MAGAs burst into flames, I would say, “huh. I guess I was wrong.”

    I don’t need much convincing.

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      1 year ago

      I would assume I was mentally I’ll and having delusions. Is anyone else seeing this? :)

  • DaveNa@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    That comma changes the meaning of what you are trying to convey op. Just remove the comma. :)

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    More importantly science isn’t afraid to admit when it’s wrong and change its working theories and models to fit all available data. Being wrong is just as if not more important to science.

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      Absolutely not, science has a long history of ignoring and laughing at many new theories. Many of them were later found out to be true, sure, but it’s not like religion doesn’t change, reinterpret itself etc. along with the changing times.

      All the while nowadays pendulum has swinged to the other side, and most of published papers are never peer-reviewed, as “science” working under a capitalist system must abide by its rules, and so quantity and shock value is more important than quality.

      So while in theory “being wrong” sounds like something that would be useful for science in practice, no, it always was about being (or at least seeming) right.

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        (Established) scientists have a long history of ignoring new theories not science itself. But that’s because at the end of the day scientists are still human.

        Science is not great at working on a very short time scales. But give it enough time so more evidence is gathered and possibly some stubborn influential people (that can’t accept a new theory) die and generally we get closer and closer to truth.

  • Lorium_O@lemm.ee
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    This is becoming another Reddit

    I browse through memes and all of a sudden I find another post that slanders religion.

    This meme does not talk about scripture nor does it mention the actual teachings of current mainstream faiths. It just likes to mock others and swerve them into hating their religion.

    The only requirement to actually start believing in religion is to accept that God CAN exist (agnosticism), the next step would just be to read through the right religious scriptures.

    This is a hot take, but I’m sure a meme slandering your precious homos and trans buddies that’s similar to this post would cause a huge ton of backlash. Just saying, this is pretty much just another degenerate subreddit now.