Out the airlock they go.

I didn’t steer shit, first of all.

First of all, never said or implied you did.

Let us enjoy our thing.

So you do enjoy bringing up religion in every possible conversation?
(and can I just point out the irony of you saying “let us enjoy our thing” when your thing it literally shitting on other people’s thing?)

Second, do you really believe that if you just ignore things they go away?

Sir, this is a Wendys meme about math.

As if people are not out there bible thumping every single day?

and we come in here and try to enjoy a moment of reflecting on the ridiculousness of those beliefs memes away from all that bullshit and someone has to come in here and bring it up to bitch about it anyway. hence, I’m here to tell them to shut the fuck up.

i really feel like your input has been the truly rude part of this conversation.

My input has been the simple fact that people who insist on making every conversation about religion are fucking exhausting to everyone else.

I have not subbed to any religious or anti-religious communities, and yet people seem to think it needs to be a part of every discussion. You’d think out of all people atheists wouldn’t be the ones doing that shit yet here we are. If you want to talk about that shit go those communities and you will find plenty of like minded people.

Do you reply to memes about video games with your thoughts on covid?

sounds like you haven’t had much experience of having to sit through religious people spout bullshit at you every single day.

You mean like what’s happening in this thread? Someone had a joke that had nothing to do with religion, and here we are talking about religious bullshit because someone can’t let any opportunity pass without mentioning religion.

Again: if you’re tired of people spouting religious bullshit at you all day I would expect you to not try to steer even more conversations towards religion.

I would just expect someone who doesn’t like religion to not want to have conversations about it, instead of bringing it up at every vaguely related opportunity.

Q: How can you tell if a Lemming is an atheist?

A: Don’t worry, they’ll tell you.

You saw a meme about science and math and your first thought was “how can I make this about religion”?

Something someone who uses “woke” as slur made up that other people like to pretend is true so they can have an excuse for whataboutism.

If course not, “everyone” refers to people, not things.

You mean the one group who understands science and the other group that refuses to understand science and insists they know better than the experts and the studies that have been done?

I don’t think there’s any common ground for those 2 groups.

The was one where her hand was “stuck” in the drain of a sink. At some point she removes her hand from the sink to remove her shirt, then puts it back in the sink.

I’m starting to think the goal is not to emulate realism…

When I first started using Linux I was impressed with how easily everything seemed to work. Then over time I started to get annoyed with all the things that I had no idea how to fix without looking up, and thought about going back to Windows.
Then I used windows again and was immediately reminded of all the stupid bullshit I had to constantly fight with and forgot about because that was just the norm when windows is the only OS you ever use.

“It’s a shame anything has to change. The Sun has changed its position in the sky and I don’t trust it one bit.”

• Welcome to Nightvale

You must be in the wrong thread. The meme presented does not say “a female shark does like male sharks in her aquarium and kills them.” It says “a male shark kept bothering a female shark so she killed him.”

The fact that you seem to think “harassing women when they aren’t interested” is an intrinsic part of being male is very telling…

Meanwhile Incels constantly complain that “you can’t joke about anything”…

Like what do we expect young impressionable boys to do?

Not bump into women repeatedly? What behaviour are you trying to defend here that is being attacked?

Bob Ross
Steve Irwin
Bill Nye
Alton Brown
Sam Reich
Brenon Lee Mulligan
Ify Nwadiwe
Matt Mercer
Jazza (Josiah Alan Brooks)

Likely your dad/uncle/older brother, or a friend’s dad/uncle/older brother
A teacher

“not the sharpest knife in the cookie jar”

You presented the argument that “religion has to be anti-science”. Finding a non-insignificant number of scientists that are religious disproves that. It does not matter where they came from, but here’s another study that polls 8 different countries:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2378023116664353

The lowest % that identifies with some religious affiliation is France at 30%. That’s significantly more than the 0% one would expect from your statement “Religion has to be anti-science” because if it was all religion that was anti-science you wouldn’t find any overlap at all.

Edit: This is my fault. I’m trying to use studies and science to discredit someone’s firmly held personal beliefs. Something I just said is a waste of time.

You contradict yourself:

I cannot think of any examples of Science, or any scientist, trying to influence what religion teaches, or what the followers of that religion believe.

There will always be people using Science to denounce bad teachings from the church

The most charitable interpretation I can give you is that “scientists” aren’t trying to use science to discredit the religion, “people” are.

So people who understand science aren’t trying to use science to attack religion, people who don’t understand science are, which was my original point. Just like it’s people who don’t understand science that try to use religion to attack it.

I didn’t claim it doesn’t happen from either science or religion. I claimed the people doing it don’t understand and it’s a pointless waste of time.

I recognize that you’re discussing the current state of affairs on the current political and social landscape.

Yes. Historically speaking everything is terrible. There is a long history of Science doing terrible and unethical experiments. There is a long history of governments doing terrible things. There is a long history of immoral and cruel laws. The history of humanity is full of atrocities.
This does not mean Science, Politics, Law, and Humanity should be by default considered bad. People who used Religion to attack Science were dumb as fuck then and are dumb as fuck now.

Science is happy to let entire swaths of people deny what they say and believe whatever the hell they want. Science and scientists will proceed with the information they have; nobody cares what you think your sky daddy has to say about it.

So if science doesn’t care (which I agree with by the way) then making memes that imply science cares is a waste of time. Not only that, by acting like science cares and has something to say about religion it implies that religion has something to say about science. Instead of treating them like they have nothing to do with each other, it invites more “Religion vs Science” BS.

What logical fallacy? The fact that the US is a very religious study doesn’t change the fact that they have scientists that are religious. If religion was anti-science then you wouldn’t have scientists that are religious, regardless of how religious the country is.

You’re the one committing the fallacy. How religious the the country is has no barring on the argument presented.