• uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 months ago

    It continues to amaze me how religious ministries can simultaneously appeal to ignorance ( We don’t what’s out there or what God wants ) and yet presume that their scripture is the inerrant, sacred stuff, and the there own, specific interpretation of that scripture and prioritization of passages, etc. is what should be treated as objective law.

    This is why it sounds like a giant MLM, whether we’re talking the caliphate of Iran or the Roman Catholic Church or the Southern Baptist Convention or any of the countless apologists.

    Nobody knows. Except the scientific sector has observed it can’t detect the spirit realm, even when it can detect the Higgs boson and the background radiation of the big bang. Miracles, ghosts, angels and demons neither emit, absorb nor reflect or refract light or heat, have no electromagnetic signature and exhibit no mass. They make nor absorb sound. The supernatural is as elusive as dark energy or dark matter, a component in mathematical models to explain discrepancies we don’t fully understand, and like the Bermuda Triangle of the 1970s, we’re finding supernatural phenomena no longer accounts for anything significant.

    But dark matter hasn’t allegedly inspired holy text to be interpreted by ministers in fancy buildings.