• Nobody@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    The funniest part of all this is that these displays have been going on for years. Iowa is apparently very big on religious freedom and allows every “religion” that fills out the right paperwork to put up a display.

    No one cared until this year, and now they’re losing their minds. He drove from Mississippi to do this nonsense.

    Jesus told people to love each other. Maybe do that first before you fill up the tank.

    • platypus_plumba@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Are you expecting rational thought from someone who believes in ideas with no evidence? Rational thinking is out of the equation with them.

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        It’s not entirely precise that they don’t believe without evidence.

        It’s actually worse than that, for example an often cited argument is that 2.3 billion people can’t be wrong. (Ignoring that 6-billion disagree…. Or that the universe cares what they believe.)

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          2 years ago

          Oh man, reminds me about the priest of my school (catholic school). In 7th grade he was telling me that I needed to believe in a religion, so I asked him that which of the thousands of religions that exist of have existed though history. He said that I needed to believe in his religion because historical it has been the most relevant. And I was just shocked… That’s was the dumbest shit I had heard. I told him that wasn’t enough for me to believe in something that is going to send me to hell for eternity if I make a human mistake and forget to confess.

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          It is just an event that could explain the current state of the universe. Why is the distance between the planets increasing? Why is space expanding? Scientists come up with explanations to observations, and then try to prove or deny them.

          It’s not like any of us actually believe that is a irrefutable fact. We won’t kill other people for it like religious people have done for centuries if someone denies their god. We have no emotions attached to it, if science discovers that it is false, we won’t start a war.

          Science never assumes it holds the absolute truth. In fact, science promotes the denial of its own theories through observation and experimentation. That’s how the scientific process works. Al’s, science is just trying to create useful models that describe and explain the behavior of the universe we live in. We know the models are never absolute, we constantly find that the models are incomplete, but they are still very useful in certain restricted contexts. For example, Newton’s equations helped humanity for many years, but they are obviously incomplete compared to modern models.

          I hope you now understand how silly your argument was. Please don’t compare science with faith again.

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      2 years ago

      Iowa is apparently very big on religious freedom and allows every “religion” that fills out the right paperwork to put up a display.

      That is true everywhere as per the First Amendment. Either you allow all religious displays or none.

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      2 years ago

      This is because the propaganda directed for MAGA heads is using it to make it look like the world is going to hell under Biden.

  • Monument@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 years ago

    This article breathlessly covers this loser and his efforts to deprive others of their religious freedoms, offers two sentences over the Satanic Temple, never mentions his actions, doesn’t describe his charges, nor does it call this an act of desecration or a hate crime. I wonder why that is…

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    2 years ago

    Would be good if his last name was Sippy so then Mrs Sippy would have to bail him out. I’m kinda thinking it’ll come to that anyway.