• 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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    1 day 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,

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        1 day ago

        1982 to be exact, when Thomas Dolby was blinded with science much like Saul was once blinded by Jesus on the road to Damascus. It’s poetry in motion.

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        1 day ago

        that debate probably existed much earlier. wouldn’t surprise me if some shaman’s were upset at those high tech craftmen with copper tools and those craftmen though the chaman was crazy…

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      24 hours ago

      Another way this discussion is bullshit and leads nowhere is that religion can also explain everything science does. Oh the kid got a prosthetic arm? Yes, because put engineers in his path, it was all part of His plan. Kid losing the arm was also part of the plan BTW.

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        19 hours ago

        religion in itself isn’t a bad thing, fervant fanaticism is the dangerous part.

        The atheist movement left a vacuum taken over by manosphere, and other toxic BS. How many cases are of scientific fanatics doing crimes against humanity for curiosity? unit 731? Mengele?