Haiatu

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by Haiatu 5y ago
You mention it though to bring it up as an argument or a point for religion otherwise you wouldn't do it.
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by Haiatu 5y ago
Funny enough we discuss in such religious discussions often being religious vs. not being and ignoring the huge difference of existing religons. I had a discussion about this topic with a more hard core christian: I said 'look if it is
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by Haiatu 5y ago
I'm really not sure how you can missread my example to come up with 'isoalting a human is analogous to removing oxygen'. My comparison is based on sciencse vs. fiction. 1+1 = 2 is a reality which works in german, africa, usa
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by Haiatu 5y ago
Thats not my point i was making. The parent mentioned specifically religious believes as a tool for good child upbringing. My counter argument shows, that religious upbringing doesn't necessarily mean a good moral & ethics.
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by Haiatu 5y ago
I do connect rationality with math and chances. Of course there is always an unkown right? We don't know it all. But as i said somewhere else: math for example is universal, you can come up with the same rules independently were you ar
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by Haiatu 5y ago
Thats not true for math / science. Math is based on fundamental global laws which exist and can be checked from everyone and they can come up all with the same math. We could isolate a baby and it could create the same math while it co
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by Haiatu 5y ago
Religion is dividing our society. Its reasonable to wish for an independent believe system for our whole society. Nonetheless arguing on hn is not a mob. But yes discriminiation of woman is a bigger problem than religion. Forced marriages,
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by Haiatu 5y ago
We actually don't know that: "What about people experiencing a divine being communicating to them, then?" But we have studied this and the answers tell us what the most realistic thing actually is and thats why we see 'd
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by Haiatu 5y ago
Non religious people call this 'science'. 'We' think about the big bang 'we' wrote the book on it. Religion writes books about 'gods' and repeat stories from the past. Math unites people across the gl
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by Haiatu 5y ago
Plenty of people prove this not to be working at all. Plenty of priests have fucked kids. Religoius people are often enough the same amount of assholes or more. I have not fought over a city for ages due to some believe.
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by Haiatu 5y ago
"One aspect of religion I appreciate is that these aspects are well codified and debated – i.e. much more explicit." They are not well debated in a sense that it would be called reasonable in a normal and educated world. Thats why