Comment on Anon's coworker is a flat-earther
EatATaco@lemm.ee 2 months agoI’m sure there have been plenty of times you have comfortably trusted a religious person with responsibility because most people are religious.
Comment on Anon's coworker is a flat-earther
EatATaco@lemm.ee 2 months agoI’m sure there have been plenty of times you have comfortably trusted a religious person with responsibility because most people are religious.
bitchkat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Most people are not religious - news.gallup.com/…/identify-religious-spiritual.as…
“nearly half” is not “most”.
Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s if you’re including “spiritual” as non-religious.
Only 18% of people in that poll were described as neither (Atheist).
Lightor@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I believe he was getting at religion as the problem, not spirituality. If you look at the BITE model, which is used to determine if a group displays cult like behavior, both flat earthers and many religions fall into the category of cults. Spirituality does not, as it is not organized.
Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world 2 months ago
As someone who grew up In a part spiritual household I heavily disagree. Flat earthers and traditional spiritualists like Neo-Pagans, Wiccans, etc, have the exact same amount of organization, if flat earthers are a cult, then so are most spiritualist groups.
Most flat earthers aren’t in some organized cult, they get their misinformation from Facebook posts and YouTube videos, with there being a couple small actually organized groups. The exact same can be said about spiritualists, just generally they used to get their spiritual beliefs from books instead of the internet, (though that’s changed now for spiritualists too).
If anything I’d bet there’s more people I’m actually organized spiritualist groups, than there are in actually organized flat earther groups.
EatATaco@lemm.ee 2 months ago
You’re going to nit pick spiritual vs religious? If we’re being pedantic, you’re citing us population, the world is much different. Also even if we accept it’s only about half, my point still stands.
TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think spiritual vs religious can be an important difference. Generally speaking it’s organized religions that are causing major harm not the individuals who believe their is something beyond our physical reality.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
But isn’t the argument about critical thinking skills? I’m sure it’s nice to believe in Gaia but there is demonstratively no evidence for it.
The question of harm done is independent to that of gullibility.