Your favorite intellectuals are as lost as you are. Only their performance is more convincing.
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Replying to @JordanTSack
The tweet was induced by the ignorance displayed by the Sam Harris & Hitchens cultists on the platform. These two and their followers don't understand the importance of religion as a meme which fills an existential vacuum through symbolic meaning-conveyance.
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Replying to @gxdarz @JordanTSack
Religion has little to do with a belief in a supernatural deity but much more to do with culture, community and rituals. These have transmuted; wrapped in secular cloth, but very much present everywhere where a human being lives. Religion is indelible; bound to human nature.
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Replying to @gxdarz @JordanTSack
With religion/faith being immortal, it is ironic that the new atheists and the new "science as dominant" faction (Neil DeGrasse Tyson types) might be doing more damage to their own cause by speaking out against it.
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In my own experience, i've seen a deeper polarization in how science is viewed now. Either you treat it like a religion (liberal, university types, this was my experience at college), or you reject it completely because you feel it denigrates your life (people of faith)
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The natural philosophers of old contextualized science's place in education, faith and science were two distinct "tools" in a man's toolkit, now there seems to be a false dichotomy, or a battle being set up where you have to pick one or the other.
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Would attribute this to the rise of fundamentalism.
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