This is the most often Iβve read someone talk of βGodβ or the bible in an assertive stance in many months and itβs from a self-proclaimed atheist no less. π΅βπ«
I wonder, if the Wired editors made him change it, so that no religious people would be offendedβ¦
Oh yeah, I have no problem with using a metaphor, whether itβs from a religious book or not. It just weirds me out how it is told as if itβs a historical record with no doubt of it having happened that way.
For an atheist, the stories in religious books are more like fables β you donβt believe that it happened that way, but you can still draw a learning from it. And when talking of fables, you donβt recount them as facts, rather you point out every few sentences that youβre simply recounting whatβs being told in the book.
You can do that in a neutral way, too, where you just say βthe Bible readsβ¦β and then people can choose to believe in it or not. And this text rarely does that, while also throwing in some opposite tropes. Had the author not stated that theyβre an atheist, I would have assumed theyβre basically a religious fundamentalist.
@lemmyreader@ttmrichter ββ¦ a set of rules called the ActivityPub standard, which is a little like HTML had sex with a calendar inviteβ
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Very interesting article. β¦ especially the idea that human high-level behaviour goes into circles: βWe Babelize and de-Babelizeβ
Wise words! π
<sigh> Once more: Elon Musk is not God.
inshallah ππ
This is the most often Iβve read someone talk of βGodβ or the bible in an assertive stance in many months and itβs from a self-proclaimed atheist no less. π΅βπ«
I wonder, if the Wired editors made him change it, so that no religious people would be offendedβ¦
It uses a well known religious metaphor to get the point across. Would work the same with some well known historical example etc.
Oh yeah, I have no problem with using a metaphor, whether itβs from a religious book or not. It just weirds me out how it is told as if itβs a historical record with no doubt of it having happened that way.
For an atheist, the stories in religious books are more like fables β you donβt believe that it happened that way, but you can still draw a learning from it. And when talking of fables, you donβt recount them as facts, rather you point out every few sentences that youβre simply recounting whatβs being told in the book.
You can do that in a neutral way, too, where you just say βthe Bible readsβ¦β and then people can choose to believe in it or not. And this text rarely does that, while also throwing in some opposite tropes. Had the author not stated that theyβre an atheist, I would have assumed theyβre basically a religious fundamentalist.
Is there a version thatβs not behind a paywall?
Ups, sorry I didnβt notice as my Firefox addon just circumvented that pay-wall automatically. I guess there is a version on the internet archive.
Thanks for linking to this extension!
https://web.archive.org/web/20230216100942/https://www.wired.com/story/god-did-us-a-favor-by-destroying-twitter/
@lemmyreader @ttmrichter ββ¦ a set of rules called the ActivityPub standard, which is a little like HTML had sex with a calendar inviteβ
π€£
Very interesting article. β¦ especially the idea that human high-level behaviour goes into circles: βWe Babelize and de-Babelizeβ
Wise words! π