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Giovanni Mascellani

@GreenFire @KI5SMN @albertojavier @Cubelet @lednaBM We've been pretty much all religious for many centuries. What makes you think that's going away soon? Otherwise your hope feels quite delusional.

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Kevin Leecaster

@giomasce @KI5SMN @albertojavier @Cubelet @lednaBM
I can't really speak for all countries, but I understand that the EU is even less religious than in the USA and here they're rapidly running away from churches especially after the last eight years of MAGA maniac crap.

Gallop estimates of Americans' religious preferences
Dragon-sided D

@rebelrebel62 @GreenFire @giomasce @KI5SMN @albertojavier @Cubelet @lednaBM
The civilized world finally divesting itself of religion is a welcome ray of hope in this timeline.

Kevin Leecaster

@dragonsidedd @rebelrebel62 @giomasce @KI5SMN @albertojavier @Cubelet @lednaBM
I worry about the youngest step-children of Abraham though since those "religions" are quite culty.

Dragon-sided D replied to Kevin

@GreenFire @rebelrebel62 @giomasce @KI5SMN @albertojavier @Cubelet @lednaBM yeah cults and conspiracies are filling a gap

but

I WANT TO BELIEVE THERE ARE RATIONAL PEOPLE OUT THERE

Pooka🍸Boo 👁🫣🫵 replied to Dragon-sided

@dragonsidedd @GreenFire @rebelrebel62 @giomasce @KI5SMN @albertojavier @Cubelet

There are... that's the good news. The bad news is both fundamentalist and moderate elements of any religion get angry and gang together to discriminate when we take down their pet faith..

Pooka🍸Boo 👁🫣🫵

@dragonsidedd @rebelrebel62 @GreenFire @giomasce @KI5SMN @albertojavier @Cubelet

We just need to remember the fundamentalists will only go down fighting. Therefore, we need to be prepared to wipe them out. And, I'm not proud to be saying this. Violence should never be a solution, but in this case, it's simply elementary logic if they don't sue for peace...

AJD replied to Pooka🍸Boo

@lednaBM @dragonsidedd @rebelrebel62 @GreenFire @giomasce @KI5SMN @Cubelet i hope it doesn't come down to pure violence. I may bet on a more subtle demographic trend. Maybe the more fundamentalists have less children.

Pooka🍸Boo 👁🫣🫵 replied to AJD

@albertojavier @dragonsidedd @rebelrebel62 @GreenFire @giomasce @KI5SMN @Cubelet Nobody in their right mind would want violence; but think about the words "right mind" and look around...

Zagone replied to Pooka🍸Boo

@lednaBM @albertojavier @dragonsidedd @rebelrebel62 @GreenFire @giomasce @KI5SMN @Cubelet

In the USA the fundamentalists are pretty close to seizing control.

There are lovely branches of Christianity yet a disturbing tendency for religious zealot crackdowns throughout the ages.

Dragon-sided D replied to Zagone

@zagone @lednaBM @albertojavier @rebelrebel62 @GreenFire @giomasce @KI5SMN @Cubelet oh yeah. I have to give a hat tip to Lenny Susskind for calling it out during Trump’s administration

yt.drgnz.club/watch?v=fV9ajE8c

sparseMatrix 📻 replied to Dragon-sided

@dragonsidedd @zagone @lednaBM @albertojavier @rebelrebel62 @GreenFire @giomasce @Cubelet

I'm not familiar with this lecture nor the good professor, but having a look at him over on wikipedia, I'm already a fan of the man.

Dragon-sided D replied to sparseMatrix 📻

@KI5SMN @zagone @lednaBM @albertojavier @rebelrebel62 @GreenFire @giomasce @Cubelet
This lecture has great personal significance to me. It is the last video I ever watched with my father, formerly a brilliant engineer, as he succumbed to Alzheimer’s. The subject material is fitting.

yt.drgnz.club/watch?v=jhnKBKZv

Dragon-sided D replied to Pooka🍸Boo

@lednaBM @rebelrebel62 @GreenFire @giomasce @KI5SMN @albertojavier @Cubelet good lord what drugs are you on

These things are fundamentally incompatible

You get rational educated people when you have a prosperous society that values both rationality and education.

Militarized societies: Russia, Iran, North Korea, …

(((X Æ Å-12))) replied to Pooka🍸Boo

@lednaBM @dragonsidedd @rebelrebel62 @GreenFire @giomasce @KI5SMN @albertojavier @Cubelet Calling for violence and wiping out on this day was the last straw for me. You've lost a follower.

sparseMatrix 📻

@dragonsidedd @rebelrebel62 @GreenFire @giomasce @albertojavier @Cubelet @lednaBM

Yeah, the problem is the uncivilized world, and not even all of them are Christians

Walter_C_Smith

@rebelrebel62 @GreenFire @giomasce @KI5SMN @albertojavier @Cubelet @lednaBM
What is the reason for the sharp drop between 1980-1984? Seems to be mostly Anglican/Protestants.

Pooka🍸Boo 👁🫣🫵

@giomasce @GreenFire @KI5SMN @albertojavier @Cubelet People are smarter and not indoctrinating their children. Science makes it look sillier and sillier relentlessly. Yes, there are those in a minority who still believe in astrology, but really, we kind of laugh at them behind their back to not hurt their feelings.

Kindness is scary

@giomasce
That, imo, was the true fall from grace: the emergence of religion as a means of control over others.

@GreenFire @KI5SMN @albertojavier @Cubelet @lednaBM

sparseMatrix 📻

@giomasce @GreenFire @albertojavier @Cubelet @lednaBM

I strongly disagree. This is nothing short of crying because 'there's no magic in the world'.

We are the magic. Be the magic.

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