• @[email protected]
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    182 months ago

    Letting Religion run things is how you get the dark ages again. They were called dark for a reason.

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          No, the same goes for archeologic findings.

          It’s believed that some king shifted years to extend his reign on paper or get a favourable century.

          Edit: That’s a load of crap

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              What does that have to do with anything?

              It just means it might not be 2025 but way earlier right now.

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                22 months ago

                Trump thinks he’s a genius king. He’s fired anyone that can stop him. They are replacing entire government departments with AI. He’s just got sick of Elon’s shit and took it over himself. This is where it gets really bumpy.

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            That is a conspiracy theory that can easily be disproven if you look literally anywhere outside of Western Europe. Muhammad started Islam and composed the Qu’ran at the beginning of that time period, and the Islamic calendar begins in 622 AD. According to the Phantom Time theory, basically none of early Islamic history actually existed and it’s a fabrication by… The Pope?! It’s an absurd premise. The Abbasid Caliphate was founded in 750 and still existed in 911, with all sorts of written and archeological evidence in favor, and let’s not forget about the other Roman Empire that existed in that time frame and have their own historical and archeological evidence, including about events that overlapped with Western histories such as Irene of Athens being pressured to marry Charlemagne. Again, it stretches credulity that the Byzantine Emperors and Eastern Church or any Muslims whatsoever would be swayed to fabricate so much of their own history by the Pope. This theory is absurd at best and racist at worst because in erasing so much Western European history it just kind of assumes literally nothing was happening anywhere else in the world either.

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      My wife yells “purge night” a lot while watching the news.

    • @[email protected]
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      172 months ago

      Yeah, the idea isn’t that church and state are matter/antimatter, but that the state shouldn’t be used to direct people towards or away from any religion.

      If the government establishes fair criteria for “school eligible for federal funding” then there’s no reason those schools must be secular or of any particular religion.

      Wait until some MAGAt groks that their tax dollars might go to a (((school))) or end up helping Muslims in some way.

      TBF, this regime doesn’t actually support any form of real education.

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      It would be probably better than most of the other offerings in Oklahoma. Funnily enough, OKCPS had(has?) an illegal provision in its dress code that bans “satanic” imagery.

  • MochiGoesMeow
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    92 months ago

    If they’re going to allow religious schools get public funding then churches should pay into taxes.

    Make it at least somewhat fair.

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    Hellenism school: EVERYTHING IS GAY AND NOW LETS THINK AND PARTY

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    82 months ago

    How long do you think it will take for Trump to declare himself as the head of the US religion, the same way Henry VIII did for the Church of England?

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    122 months ago

    As a European watching the news, sometimes I have to remind myself that lots of other countries also go to shit from time to time, it just doesn’t get reported on as much. We get a massively disproportionate amount of reporting from the US as a result of how the English-speaking internet works.

    In fact even writing this I just noticed the sidebar’s description of the community I’m posting in, guess I should probably just block it (no offence).

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    America really is falling through, huh? Might just be best to dissolve the union and leave behind the garbage.

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          212 months ago

          I’ve said that, word for word. When I actually sit and think about it though, I think it’s more like appendicitis. Religion once served a purpose (passing on of useful cultural norms and expectations), has become vestigial, and is now inflamed and likely to kill us (as a society and individually, in some cases)

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            Or a constantly inflamed tissue becomes cancerous overtime, and the theory of field cancerization, much like with celiacs and untreated gerd.

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            122 months ago

            Social / cultural norms don’t require belief systems and made up deities to function. Putting that magical thinking to it makes people fanatical and works against logic or ideological evolution. Religion has always worked against societal advancement. It was a collective delusion to soothe ancient fears of a world we could not comprehend. Clinging to it now is just a salve to people’s fear of death. It’s a weak minded cope to fragile egos who can’t stand that we are just animals and there is no greater purpose to our existence. It helps powerful people to get poor people to die for their causes and to manipulate emotions. It’s a disease against progress.

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              The supernatural claims are just a byproduct of the mechanism that passed along the creation myths and cultural norms. It would be great if that wasn’t how it happened, but it did. Rational people can agree at this point that the magical thinking is a net negative for society, but IMO, to ignore that there were some positives to come along with religion is the same sort of blind denial that religious folks use.

              It was a collective delusion to soothe ancient fears of a world we could not comprehend

              Agreed, but can’t you see that that was an advantage during the formative ages of society and civilization?

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                I can say it was a way to reach an end, but it wasn’t the only way to reach that end. Society in the formative ages could have just as easily organized around collective strength and pack principals instead of magical thinking. It served some purpose, but it was a poor way to reach that end. It is a net negative on humanity, but it’s how we got here so we have to deal with its corrosive residue in society today.

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                  Agreed, that’s my whole point. It was not the ideal way to get where we are, but it’s how it happened. There was a… I don’t want to say purpose, but “benefit,” might be the right word.

                  If we were designing things from scratch, then obviously religion would be left out. But it’s an unfortunate accident of the evolution of consciousness and evolution of civilization that certain societal benefits were included with the magical thinking. Just like the health of the human gut biome is tied to the existence of the appendix, even through the appendix doesn’t provide much in the way of direct benefits these days and can become inflamed and kill us.

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        I think if we were sent a history book from the year 2200, we would see that history has determine the US was already effectively gone by this point. Most just don’t see it yet. What’s left for us to figure out is where we go from here. So far, I don’t like the chance it is a better country or world.

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          22 months ago

          In the trek franchise, people finally get it, after they nuked themselves in a 3rd ww3 which costed 600mil lives, and of course a little alien intervention aftermath.

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          Oh I agree, it’s been on a downwards spiral for a while, I was just saying how it’s sped up it’s descent.

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    Absolutely appalling. But I can always scream st my representatives louder. Though thats not working so guess what’s next?

  • @[email protected]
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    502 months ago

    Religion is a belief. School curriculum is made based on facts and experiments over time. They should not be combined.

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      Religion is made up fairytales that adults still believe in.

      Honesty a guy praying to Jebus is no different than a guy shooting hadoukens from his wrists.

      Yet one is called spiritual while the other is called childish…

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    And there’s nothing any of us can do about it.