There are tools that just flag you as having gotten an achievement on Steam, you don't even have to have the game open to do it. I'd hardly call that 'hacking'.
CileTheSane
joined 1 year ago
That's just his head
I watched a random episode on my media box today (Season 7, Lisa becomes a vegetarian). It's been a while and I forgot how good it is. The sheer number of scenes that my wife and I quote to each other on a regular basis that were just in 1 episode was ridiculous.
The Nazi belief was absolutely a religion. Not one of deity, but of superiority.
That agrees with my point that if you managed to abolish all religions people would still find excuses to perform atrocities. They'll just do it in the name of their "superiority" instead of their "god".
Where do I end up in the stats?
Depends on your answer to the question "do you believe in God" or "what religion are you".
“guns don’t kill people, people kill people”, does that mean there should be zero regulations on guns?
Strawman. I was mentioning hammers, are there any regulations on hammers? I never once called a gun a tool.
Religion is the same, and historically has been the CAUSE not the TOOL for countless genocides and “justified” killings.
If you believe the people causing genocides wouldn't have fun another reason to excuse them I have a bridge to sell you. The Holocaust wasn't motivated by religion.
Studies don't randomly guess if someone is religious or not, they ask people directly if they are religious.
You just said you were Protestant
I probably show up in some statistics as protestant.
According to the guy I replied to that makes you an extremist.
If you look up "% people in (your area) religious" you'll find roughly 80% identify as one religion or another. If religion is the problem it's 80% of the population.
Sure. Doesn't change the fact that Religion can be used as a tool for social engagement and can have a measurable, good effect on people's lives.
When people misuse a hammer to cause harm you don't blame the hammer.
The difference is in that one of our beliefs is founded in the observable world and the other delusion. One holds up to scrutiny and the other does not.
Scientific scrutiny shows there are health benefits to belonging to a religious organization. The only thing that "holds up to scrutiny" is "I'm right and you're wrong" which, again, the religious person also believes.
So instead of having "rules for thee but not for me", maybe everyone should not be trying to force their beliefs on others.
If he has a PR team they are doing a terrible job.