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Farmer-Rick

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11. Religion has also been against

Reply to Duppers (Reply #8)

Sun Feb 20, 2022, 12:24 PM

Feb 2022

Commonsense, kindness, justice and morality.

Some religions promote some of the kind parts of their mythology but mostly they stand in the way of both moral and scientific advancements.

"American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate, Steven Weinberg once famously said, "With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion."

https://m.economictimes.com/opinion/vedanta/two-good-reasons/articleshow/11299834.cms

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It always has been: Duppers Feb 2022 #8

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No it's not Farmer-Rick Feb 2022 #12

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