I don't understand the hype about the Pope. All he does is speak in vague platitudes. Same for the Dalai Lama; a Markov chain in a costume.
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People are all like "Hooray the Pope is on board with progressive science-ism!" But why should they care what the Pope thinks?
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Religions adapt to new surroundings by adding epicycle after epicycle to fit new narrative contexts. There's nothing impressive about this.
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Wake me up when the Pope actually embraces the methods of science instead of cargo-culting the results—but then he'd simply quit Catholicism
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"Science is good, I love science, me and science are best buds"—but then you insist you can magic some bread and wine into flesh? GTFO.
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You get zero points—no, NEGATIVE points!—for adding modern cosmology to a bag of tricks that includes transubstantiation and holy water.
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The whole point in changing ur mind is saying "oops". If you don't say "oops" & pretend your beliefs integrated with new evidence all along—
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—then your beliefs can be swindled into any form that is convenient for your social status; you don't really have beliefs, just excuses.
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The fact that so many non-Catholics can sincerely applaud the Pope's affirmation of cosmology/evolution shows the hollowness of discourse.
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@niftierideology the pope is an institution not a person. there to prevent holiness spirals (?) not think up new insights
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@niftierideology that said a lot of atheist religious studies nerds are into JP's theology of the body1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing Yeah, but why can't there just be a minimum amount of autism so that people at least *try* to form coherent world views?1 reply 0 retweets 1 like - 3 more replies
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