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Replying to @Ahimsa_Satya_ @BretWeinstein
The first four which cover only blasphemy and reverence.
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Replying to @AirliftAnders @BretWeinstein
I understand how they may be interpreted dogmatically and in a narrow sense to not be applicable, but it’s not at all obvious to me that dropping those strictures would lead to an increase in the long run survivability to the society that adopts them. Rene Girard would explain
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Replying to @Ahimsa_Satya_ @BretWeinstein
Yes, we should reject censoring blasphemy or condemning the irreverent. We must drop false beliefs when even seemingly harmless ones like "all human life is sacred" and "life begins at conception" lead to disastrous policies like bans on embryonic stem cell research.
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Well the stem cell issue goes beyond religion. Seems a scale type issue, is there a magic point where suddenly its alive? That point is debatable. It started out because the other side of all life is Sacred is worse.
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