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The stupid ones do, yes. The smarter ones are allowing it to go on unchallenged so…
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Submitted 5 months ago by chknbwl@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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db2@lemmy.world 5 months ago
OpenStars@discuss.online 5 months ago
That’s the issue with any “freedom” - we can make a wrong choice. e.g. lack of gun control allows school shootings, literally daily:-(. Though on the internet, we can go anywhere, do as we please, and say anything!
I would not call any of these three issues fully “unchallenged”, in the sense that many words have been expended about them, on all sides, though ultimately yes you are correct: nobody has altered the laws to allow stopping of any of them (yet internet freedoms are the ones at most risk right now, due to authoritarianism).
Atin@lemmy.world 5 months ago
A very small minority. Unfortunately they have a large voice.
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Don’t pay attention to quacks. If the devil exists, there is no way a human being has any idea what he ‘knows’. So their entire ridiculous cartoon starts with a false premise and gets worse from there.
vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
If you believe the devil exists, and he is a near peer adversary of God, you are officially a polytheistic unbeliever.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 5 months ago
Thanks for asking
Nope! There’s nothing wrong with studying God’s creation.
It seems you have found a tract made by a Young Earth Creationist, seems to be someone who also dislikes churches. Likely a radical restorationist like a Seventh Day Adventist. Stuff like this doesn’t represent all of Christianity. In fact, most scientists throughout history were Christians sponsored by the Church.
zout@fedia.io 5 months ago
In fact, most scientists throughout history were Christians sponsored by the Catholic Church.
Which is why the dark ages is where all the science happened in Europe.
grandkaiser@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The dark ages didn’t happen. They’re a myth perpetuated by protestant historians in the 1900’s who were trying to imply that the era between the fall of the Western Roman empire (600s) and the reformation period (1500’s) were this awful collapse of society due to the Catholic Church ‘straying from gods light’. It’s totally bullshit of course and any modern historian (regardless of religion) wouldn’t use the term.
OpenStars@discuss.online 5 months ago
The only reliable way to spot a falsehood is to know the truth so well that a counterfeit / alternative truth cannot pull one over on you.
Keep asking questions, it’s literally the only way to find the real Truth! As btw both the scientific method in the age of enlightenment and also the Christian Bible itself literally mandates, in e.g. I Thessalonians 5:21 and 1 John 4:1 etc.
Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Considering the weight of the Jesuit order, both in education, and in the Vatican politics, I don’t think that the Christian are against education in general.
ArtieShaw@fedia.io 5 months ago
I will reply not with my own view, but of the person who is most likely the author if this tract: Jack Chick. "Catholics are not Christians."
Absurd, you say? Of course, and I agree that it's absurd.
In the US there are two broad categories of people who would disagree.
- Old school bigots, many of whom came from immigrant families and wanted to align with the ruling class in America: WASPs. These were generally families who came from northwestern Europe and Scandinavia. (This describes the oldest members of my own family, who are still scandalized that my uncle married a woman from an Italian family in the 1960s).
- Fundamentalist Protestants. There are a thousand different flavors, so it's hard to give them a single name. They agree that the bible is the literal word of God and that Catholicism is fundamentally flawed - as is any religion that stresses the need to "do unto others" in any significant fashion. "The only way to heaven is through me," said Jesus. In other words, if you're a serial killer but you truly believe in Jesus Christ and have pledged your soul to him - well, Jesus must have a good reason for all that serial killing you did. (This describes my in-laws, so yes - my entire family is fucked up).
The serial killing thing is a bit of an exaggeration, but honestly - these people are almost shockingly mean to each other.
rez_doggie@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That nose is too racist for me to agree
manucode@infosec.pub 5 months ago
I don’t understand these comics. Are they pro religion? Are they anti-religious satire?
The first comic seems to both warn against satan and attack religion. It might be talking about all religions but the right one.
The second comic is even more confusing. First it seems to associate education and the theory of evolution in particular with satan. But then it seems to associate rejection of education with punks who aren’t necessarily known for their religiosity.
The third comic, finally, is pretty clear, painting wealth and entertainment (sports) as detractions from religion. This could technically still be satire though.
ArtieShaw@fedia.io 5 months ago
It looks like a Chick Tract, and these panels would be part of a larger work. They're dumb, but completely serious. Popular with fundies, and if you're not careful you might find one on your desk at work. (I have, lol).
There is definitely an anti-Catholic sentiment in some of them, so that's probably what the frame in the first clip is getting at.
small44@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Isn’t learning about a religion a sort of education? I think it depends on the sect.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 5 months ago
“Blessed is the mind too small for doubt.”
40k didn’t just make this stuff up out of nowhere.