• Flying Squid
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    282 years ago

    What religion changes its dogma when new information arises? I can’t think of one.

    • VoxAdActa
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      112 years ago

      What religion changes its dogma when new information arises? I can’t think of one.

      Hey now, that’s unfair! It only took Mormons a little under 150 years to decide that black people were allowed in Heaven!

      • Flying Squid
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        32 years ago

        The Church of the FSM hasn’t updated their pirate data in 15 years! Hmpf!

    • Doug [he/him]
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      32 years ago

      Decentralized ones because no one stands to gain as no one holds control.

      Unless you mean that “there’s no proof of (thing) so it’s wrong to believe it”.

      • Haus
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        12 years ago

        The kneejerk anti-science feature of Christianity was added in a fairly recent update. Yes, you’ve got Galileo. Yes you’ve got the Scopes Monkey Trial. But I never saw the type of shitheadedness we’re now familiar with in the rank and file until the 70s when the Televangelists came online.