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Cartoonist

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26. Leave Pogo out of it.

Fri Oct 11, 2019, 03:42 PM

Oct 2019

I like your use of "tools" and their role in shaping the world. So let's look at our toolbox. What items are in there and how have they benefited humankind.

Music - The ultimate unifier. The common language.

Science - Its contribution for good is astronomical. Health just for starters. Ease of living and increased understanding of our place in the universe just keep getting better.

Religion - The ultimate divider. History's most prolific mass murderer. Of absolutely no use in understanding the cosmos. Clearly, a tool we don't need and would be better off without.

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Technology-oriented religions are coming [View all] guillaumeb Oct 2019 OP

Scientology is already here. Have your thetans evicted with the magic machine! n/t TygrBright Oct 2019 #1

is the magic underwear required? (whoops...wrong fairy tale!) NRaleighLiberal Oct 2019 #2

I had no idea that I was infected (infested?) with thetans. guillaumeb Oct 2019 #3

Why are you making fun of someone's deeply-held religious beliefs? trotsky Oct 2019 #5

No. Hand all of your money over to Scientology and you will be rid of them DBoon Oct 2019 #29

Dictator Xenu will not be amused. n/t Permanut Oct 2019 #56

"Religions can be a wonderful and inclusive tool pushing society forward" trotsky Oct 2019 #4

I understand your need to promote this narrative. eom guillaumeb Oct 2019 #6

You understand nothing of the sort, though you certainly wish that were the case. n/t trotsky Oct 2019 #9

No, I really do. guillaumeb Oct 2019 #10

Uh huh. trotsky Oct 2019 #14

Thank you for admitting that it is the problem, or one of them. guillaumeb Oct 2019 #16

Yes, I fully admit your lack of basic civility is the problem. trotsky Oct 2019 #49

Now, there you go with your misframing again.. Permanut Oct 2019 #57

LOL n/t trotsky Oct 2019 #59

That is not the case. Newest Reality Oct 2019 #7

OK trotsky Oct 2019 #8

Oh come on, now. Newest Reality Oct 2019 #11

Genocide is a pretty broad brush Cartoonist Oct 2019 #12

Okay, Newest Reality Oct 2019 #13

Well said. guillaumeb Oct 2019 #18

Generic Apologetic #151: ZOMG GUISE SCIENCE IS TEH EVUL Act_of_Reparation Oct 2019 #60

Do the words China and Uighurs apply here? guillaumeb Oct 2019 #21

Only if you're going to engage in Whataboutism. trotsky Oct 2019 #52

That's the thing, if you go broader and deeper, it only gets worse for you. trotsky Oct 2019 #15

Tell that to the theists in CHina who are imprisoned in concentration camps guillaumeb Oct 2019 #17

Yes. Newest Reality Oct 2019 #19

True. People claim many reasons for what they do, guillaumeb Oct 2019 #20

I think you have it there... Newest Reality Oct 2019 #22

Well said. we are all in this together because we are all human, and all fallible. eom guillaumeb Oct 2019 #24

Leave Pogo out of it. Cartoonist Oct 2019 #26

That's a nice statement. Newest Reality Oct 2019 #28

When the claim is that their holy text tells them to kill people... trotsky Oct 2019 #53

Who pushes the button? Cartoonist Oct 2019 #23

I was making the opposite point. Newest Reality Oct 2019 #25

Been there. Cartoonist Oct 2019 #27

Oh boy. Newest Reality Oct 2019 #31

No answer eh? Cartoonist Oct 2019 #32

You know about your own experience with religion. guillaumeb Oct 2019 #34

Unfortunately, no Cartoonist Oct 2019 #35

We must all know our own imperfections. guillaumeb Oct 2019 #36

Yes, there are theists imprisoned in China. There are also atheists imprisoned in China. trotsky Oct 2019 #50

Oh and #whataboutism. trotsky Oct 2019 #51

Are there any atheists in those camps, you think? Act_of_Reparation Oct 2019 #54

The Uighur camps contain Muslim Uighurs. eom guillaumeb Oct 2019 #55

Are there camps for atheists? Act_of_Reparation Oct 2019 #61

or this DBoon Oct 2019 #30

Brothers and Sisters, the Techno-God said to me today Vogon_Glory Oct 2019 #33

Absolute bull. Eko Oct 2019 #37

Religious hierarchies were formed edhopper Oct 2019 #38

All organizations form hierarchies. guillaumeb Oct 2019 #39

but not all do it to control others edhopper Oct 2019 #40

A hierarchy implies control, and leadership. guillaumeb Oct 2019 #41

But what that leadership and control does is the point edhopper Oct 2019 #42

Many scientists are theists. guillaumeb Oct 2019 #43

not the subject edhopper Oct 2019 #44

You widened the subject by talking of science and medicine. guillaumeb Oct 2019 #45

As examples of hierarchies that are not anti-progress as religion is edhopper Oct 2019 #46

Is religion in itself opposed to progress? guillaumeb Oct 2019 #47

I'll stand by my #30 reply. edhopper Oct 2019 #48

I'm looking forward to the use of technology by religious authorities.. Permanut Oct 2019 #58

Technology cannot exaplin the metaphorical use of language. guillaumeb Oct 2019 #62