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laughing at “religion” for being dumb is like a tree laughing at a seed for not being a tree 🌳😂
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i grew up assuming we're smarter than all the generations that came before now i try to remember that it's not really a competition — for better or worse, we're standing on the foundation they built. new ideas and systems always grow out of older ones
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the seeds of secular ideas about free speech can be found in John Milton’s Protestantism his 17th century writings inspired the authors of the 1st amendment. and they’re grounded in his belief that people had the right to “work out the truth of the Reformation”
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“science” and “religion” are the blunt categories that we use when we look at history in the rear-view mirror just like there are no bright lines b/w species in evolution, there’s no singular moment when religious thought became scientific even Newton was obsessed w alchemy
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