Yeah but he also has a lot of easily quotable anti-religion sounding sentences, so they pull those out and treat him like this super anti-theist.
Its one of the biggest flaws of philosophy as a field in the modern age. Where people only know these massive figures by soundbites and then building their understanding of the world off them, instead of digesting the massive work that proves and explains said soundbite to a point where it means something completely different.
That's a paragraph. They live only in soundbites, which is the problem I was getting at. He, like most philosophers of the day, have singular sentences they can extract without context to say what they want to hear.
Because god forbid they read the whole book to watch the mental grappling the author's went through and possibly go through it themselves.
As more of an anti-theist, and a fan of the history of science, they've got no damn choice.
The Enlightenment, it's scientific revolution, and it's philosophies are all Christian. So is the university system. That's what they are supposed to be professing.
Hell, Islam is filled to the brim with warfare, incest, and pedophiles, and they managed to discover a whole bunch of shit before collapsing their own civilization on their head and remaining stagnant for hundreds of years.
The issue really isn't "how can they believe this silly shit", it needs to be "who is telling them this silly shit makes sense and why are they not thinking skeptically when they are explicitly trained to do so?"
And I'd rather we use that question to answer why they are falling FOR FUCKING BLUE ANON CONSPIRACIES AND TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME before answering why they buy into Christendom.
Let's start with the most pressing cult. The one that allowed Andrew Cuomo to kill 15,000 people without consequence.
I'm trying not to be put in a Covid concentration camp, marched off to the SJW's gulag, or be beheaded in an act of cultural enrichment by the local Islamist. Crockoduck nonsense and "bananas prove evolution false" are retarded, but please stop trying to chemically castrate the fucking children.
Christianity is a dumb fairytale that only stupid people believe
Christianity is a dumb fairytale that even intelligent people are fooled by.
How can someone so smart believe in something that only morons do?
Plenty of things that smart people fall for just as morons do. Credit default swap and subprime mortgages are fine examples. There are plenty of hedge funds full of PhDs and even Nobel laureates that went bankrupt.
nearly every single great scientific work or piece of literature in history was created by someone who was religious.
Unless you can prove that being religious aided their scientific work, I don't see how this is even relevant. Can you demonstrate cause and effect?
The short answer to your question is that the concept of a supreme divinity that fixed universal laws of how the world would always operate after he or she set it in motion paved the way for both the scientific method and rationality.
(The former being empiricism and the latter being...mostly pure math I guess, which often turns out surprisingly useful)
If you're a pagan, and it's all up to where you happen to be and the mercurial whims of local spirits to decide whether or not your kid's gonna die of hypothermia in a bad winter, there's little incentive to "figure out the way the whole world works" while you're trying to scrape calories out of the frozen dirt.
What about that friar, Gregor Mendel who founded the modern science of genetics? What a moron! Why bother learning why different strains of peas pass on different traits, when you could just eat them?!
Yeah but he also has a lot of easily quotable anti-religion sounding sentences, so they pull those out and treat him like this super anti-theist.
Its one of the biggest flaws of philosophy as a field in the modern age. Where people only know these massive figures by soundbites and then building their understanding of the world off them, instead of digesting the massive work that proves and explains said soundbite to a point where it means something completely different.
That's a paragraph. They live only in soundbites, which is the problem I was getting at. He, like most philosophers of the day, have singular sentences they can extract without context to say what they want to hear.
Because god forbid they read the whole book to watch the mental grappling the author's went through and possibly go through it themselves.
As more of an anti-theist, and a fan of the history of science, they've got no damn choice.
The Enlightenment, it's scientific revolution, and it's philosophies are all Christian. So is the university system. That's what they are supposed to be professing.
Hell, Islam is filled to the brim with warfare, incest, and pedophiles, and they managed to discover a whole bunch of shit before collapsing their own civilization on their head and remaining stagnant for hundreds of years.
The issue really isn't "how can they believe this silly shit", it needs to be "who is telling them this silly shit makes sense and why are they not thinking skeptically when they are explicitly trained to do so?"
And I'd rather we use that question to answer why they are falling FOR FUCKING BLUE ANON CONSPIRACIES AND TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME before answering why they buy into Christendom.
Let's start with the most pressing cult. The one that allowed Andrew Cuomo to kill 15,000 people without consequence.
I'm trying not to be put in a Covid concentration camp, marched off to the SJW's gulag, or be beheaded in an act of cultural enrichment by the local Islamist. Crockoduck nonsense and "bananas prove evolution false" are retarded, but please stop trying to chemically castrate the fucking children.
One of my all time favourite quotes is
Christianity is a dumb fairytale that even intelligent people are fooled by.
Plenty of things that smart people fall for just as morons do. Credit default swap and subprime mortgages are fine examples. There are plenty of hedge funds full of PhDs and even Nobel laureates that went bankrupt.
Unless you can prove that being religious aided their scientific work, I don't see how this is even relevant. Can you demonstrate cause and effect?
The short answer to your question is that the concept of a supreme divinity that fixed universal laws of how the world would always operate after he or she set it in motion paved the way for both the scientific method and rationality.
(The former being empiricism and the latter being...mostly pure math I guess, which often turns out surprisingly useful)
If you're a pagan, and it's all up to where you happen to be and the mercurial whims of local spirits to decide whether or not your kid's gonna die of hypothermia in a bad winter, there's little incentive to "figure out the way the whole world works" while you're trying to scrape calories out of the frozen dirt.
(I'm agnostic, for the record.)
Not to mention that dumb Bishop George Berkeley who pointed out some weak spots in Newton's initial formulation of calculus.
What a couple of absolute rubes just yelling past each other, amirite?!
What about that friar, Gregor Mendel who founded the modern science of genetics? What a moron! Why bother learning why different strains of peas pass on different traits, when you could just eat them?!
In fairness, Isaac Newton was a narcissistic cunt.
He didn't invent gravity, he explained it through calculus.
And yeah, it definitely made him egotistical.