• Shanedino@lemmy.world
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    Religions are mostly just popularized conspiracy theories. Believing in God is about as realistic as believing the world is flat.

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      1 year ago

      But it’s not about that for many people. For many people, being religious is more about finding strength and peace in that kind of guided spirituality

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        1 year ago

        The same thing can be said about most conspiracy theories. People want to believe in aliens because then we aren’t alone and they feel more comfortable, for example. The biggest issue I have is it leads them to do things that are un-helpful for the rest of humanity.

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          1 year ago

          But c’mon… There ARE aliens. Just maybe not here necessarily. But somewhere, there are 100% aliens.

    • Catsrules@lemmy.ml
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      Believing in God is about as realistic as believing the world is flat.

      That is a bad comparison IMO. We have piles and piles of hard evidence the Earth is round. Saying the Earth is flat is just factually incorrect at this point.

      But the existence of God. I would argue we have no hard evidence of God’s existence nor do we have hard evidence that God doesn’t exist. As far as science is concerned it is still a theory.

      On top of that what makes a god a God there are multiple definitions of a God. If simulation theory is correct and we are all just in a simulation would be people outside of the simulation be our Gods? Or if an extremely advanced civilization existed would they be Gods to us? Or If we as humans advanced enough could we become Gods our self.