• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Religions are as coherent and formal as scientific disciplines,

    That’s just decidedly false.

    Would you then turn around and say that an entire scientific discipline is bunk simply because the outgoing president of an academic association disagreed with or had different views from the incoming president?

    If it was just personal opinions without evidence they just pulled out their behinds then yes absolutely.

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      1 year ago

      That’s just decidedly false.

      Even ignoring the fact that Western science has roots in Catholicism, seems to me like most religions are fairly explicit about what they believe, and generally agree on what those beliefs are. The biggest religions in the world seem to have quite a bit of hierarchy and structure, with enough organization and agreement to produce large-scale structures and institutions. Sure there are disagreements - but those disagreements, again, are no reason to discount religion as a whole.

      If it was just personal opinions without evidence they just pulled out their behinds then yes absolutely.

      So again you’ve proved my point. It’s not the disagreement you have a problem with, it’s something else entirely.