Except Educated shouldn't be in quotes.
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To people like that it is. They think education begins and ends with their preferred holy book. It's not limited to christians.
But even then the fastest way start questioning the Bible is by actually reading it. They probably don’t encourage that either through.
That's why they do it as a group, keeps people from thinking too much when they're afraid of disappointing each other by not believing the right way.
"They believe the bible is the exact word of God - Then they change the bible! Pretty presumptuous, hu huh? "I think what God meant to say..."
Bill Hicks
Fart her? I barely know her!
Anything to protect their ~~profits~~ "spirit"
This is the exact same ideology of the GOP
Religion and Authoritarians have a lot of overlap I've certainly noticed.
Almost like one invented the other
It's pretty funny they (technically incorrectly) used "farther" instead of "further" while saying education is bad.
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What baffles me is how truly compatible science and religious faith could be, only in that religion attempts to provide answers that science cannot. But rather than pushing hard to only provide those answers, and reading the texts in the context of the time, these religious leaders get unbelievably bent out of shape and decide to die on hills that are just trivially and demonstrably false.
Like evolution, the age of the earth, heck a few years ago even a heliocentric solar system. It does not matter at all if this is a heliocentric solar system, and yet folks were happy to die on that hill (even killing others who just point out the truth) turning away everyone who won't submit. That's what finally got me, the constant claims to seek truth, and yet inevitably ignoring it completely when it slaps you in the face.
It's so close-minded and completely misses the point. If all they did was say "here's some moral teachings on how to be better to each other" at least I could get on board with that. But no, it's somehow required to buy into all the false teachings too.
It feels like a dead sea effect, where the only people left are those who comply when they see red plate and the leaders tell them to call it blue. To me that's not about seeking truth or trying to live a more moral life, but rather about control and power.
God of the gaps, only the gaps get smaller and smaller as time goes on.
Religion and science are not compatiable. Science cares about truth, religion demands lies.
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The problem there is that a religious text loses its authority if it’s full of demonstrably incorrect statements. Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus.
Once you’ve decided that you can just ignore anything that looks wrong, the Bible stops being a source of truth and becomes a Rorschach ink blot for you to see whatever you want in it.
It's almost like religion isn't actually meant to be a source of truth, or even faith or purpose, and is actually just a tool to control the poor who's every positive trait is a function to that end
If you're baffled then you are not educated. Surely that's a plus, and makes you closer to God, according to this article. /s
...religion attempts to provide answers that science cannot. But rather than pushing hard to only provide those answers...
Nobody should be attempting to provide answers that aren't backed by evidence or testable. "Trust me, bro" is not a credential.
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"GOD". The quotes are in the wrong spot.
When I went to boot camp, every Sunday was religious day. I started the Atheist & Agnostic group with two other recruits in the cycle. We'd chat about science and philosophy. They got us some books and whatnot.
Eventually had a pastor from the Church of Christ come in to chat with us and try to debunk some of our science talks with that Bible knowledge: carbon dating isn't real, dinosaurs are only 3000 years old, that kind of thing.
He eventually won me over though, because church of Christ gave bread and grape juice at every service, and extra chow in boot camp was hard to come by. Almost like real life...
I don't get it, if there's a joke here.
Christian evangelism always involves giving food to the potential converts. I think the guy "converted" simply because of food.
What is this, the definition of "god of the gaps"?
A good case for the kids skipping "Sunday School". They should be outside, playing.
Sunday school is indoctrination anyway, and should be called out as such
~ Goebbels
I'm not sure what point they think they're making. Maybe that "education is bad"?
They’re saying facts don’t support their bullshit
I would love to ask the pastor what he means by "educated".
"We want you as smart as not knowing you're Christian in name only."
Science is magic to those who don't understand it
Sounds nice.
GIT DUM, PLEBS!
c/selfawarewolves
The quotation marks surround the wrong word.
It's almost as if we can see through the nonsense...
This might be the motivation I need to seek my PhD. Thanks, Paster Blurry McBlurname!
HIS god
every god
Correct. My god is the exact opposite. My god is equally imagined and valid as this one.
Can we please start addressing that this one specific sect of religion is killing our society and do something?
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How accurate. We can’t have people asking questions about anything, because their beliefs will fall apart.
Actually, the more educated we've become, the further we've moved from the dark ages.
Great!
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