The Great Zaganza
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Apple is a Religion.
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In the future there will be no religion!
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Minoosh
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I second smartcooky's applause.
theprestige
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That's magic, not science.
Belz...
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Hasn't managed to yet. And it's been at it for centuries.
No, in the future we'll just have different religions, with some masquarading as science.
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It's a joke. ...maybe not a funny one...but it is still a joke.
Would that be a shotgun wedding?
And loving others is a good idea that existed before the religion of Christianity and will exist long after.
If by "religion" you man education that teaches and encourages compassion, sure we need that as a part of our culture. However compassion transcends what most people call religion and has usually been impaired by what most people call religion.
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Scorpion
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We already have one, its called scientology.
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edit: Nevermind, I understand now.
fibbermcgee
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Ricardo there is a science church! That's right the church of Christ Scientist (Mary Baker Eddy and the key to the scriptures) Unfortunately the word Science is defined by the word Christian. The followers believe that disease is an illusion. You are probably familiar with the children who died at the hands of parents because the child was not allowed to see a doctor.
My own mother a, Christian Scientist, refused to let the high school I attended administer a polio shot. I took the note and signed it myself. Too many pictures of iron lungs. I was about 13 at the time.
Oddly enough the Church publishes the Christian Science Monitor, a well respected newspaper with no religion involved.
My own mother a, Christian Scientist, refused to let the high school I attended administer a polio shot. I took the note and signed it myself. Too many pictures of iron lungs. I was about 13 at the time.
Oddly enough the Church publishes the Christian Science Monitor, a well respected newspaper with no religion involved.
arthwollipot
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Scientology bears as little resemblance to science as Christian Science does.
Thor 2
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The late Christopher Hitchens (peace be upon him), once made the mistake of referring to Christian Scientists instead of Scientists who were Christian.
rjh01
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Science may not have destroyed religion yet. However it is making progress. Before the modern printing press in the 1400s everyone was deeply religious. If in Europe then you were mostly Catholic. After Martin Luther and King Henry 8 there started many other churches. Then people started questioning religion and it became less important. Now only a minority of people go to a place of worship at least once a month.
smartcooky
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smartcooky
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IMO, Scorpion's comment is a fair one. The core tenet of Scientology (Dianetics) does masquerade as science, even if there is zero scientific basis for any of it.
I read the thread title and wish it was yesterday sciences killed religion, all of them.
But I fear if that were true there would be a good 2/3 of world population with nothing to hope for, nothing to work for and worse, no dirty ,( other faith group ) to fear and or plan how to kill.
They would have nothing to do but go look for a job or something.
Most don't know or care about sciences or technology, they would reinvent a god or gods to fill the hole and make him offer them eternal life or something.
It's what people do.
But I fear if that were true there would be a good 2/3 of world population with nothing to hope for, nothing to work for and worse, no dirty ,( other faith group ) to fear and or plan how to kill.
They would have nothing to do but go look for a job or something.
Most don't know or care about sciences or technology, they would reinvent a god or gods to fill the hole and make him offer them eternal life or something.
It's what people do.
Only in combination with welfare. If you don't have access to science-based medicine, you'll go to a witch doctor if that's your only option. If you see no way of feeding your children, you may pray for a solution. Improving the standards of living kills religion.
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It has been tried before: The Catholic Church and science: Scientific Revolution and the Church (Wikipedia).
Religion didn't like it, so science was faced with the choice of either confirming dogma, i.e. abandon science, or breaking free from the Church. Some chose one way, and they are still around today (see Creation science (Wikipedia)). Others chose to disregard doctrine, trust their own research and abandon religion (see Evolution (Wikipedia)).
That would make science so much easier. You get stuck or an experiment doesn't work out? It's obvious God did it! Or we are not meant to know.
The god of the Jews and Christians is already scared we will become like him. He flipped out on Adam and Eve and the builders of the Tower of Babel because we got too close to godhood for his liking.
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The gigantic memeplexes of religion have been replaced slowly by politics. They are the exact same phenomena: Clusters of memes getting people to behave in ways to seize the brass ring of power.
It's the seizure of the brass ring of power that is the problem, and why freedom is the solution, just as it was with religion.
We now return you to your conversation arguing about how many angels are on the head of a pin.
It's the seizure of the brass ring of power that is the problem, and why freedom is the solution, just as it was with religion.
We now return you to your conversation arguing about how many angels are on the head of a pin.