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   XPost: sci.skeptic   
   From: anthk@openbsd.home   
      
   On 2024-10-02, shogun  wrote:   
   > Bob Casanova wrote:   
   >> On Wed, 02 Oct 2024 09:08:20 -0700, the following appeared   
   >> in sci.skeptic, posted by Don_from_AZ   
   >> :   
   >>   
   >>> shogun  writes:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Bob Casanova wrote:   
   >>>>> On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 17:16:28 +0000, the following appeared in   
   >>>>> sci.skeptic, posted by sora :   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> David Dalton wrote:   
   >>>>>>> Sept. 30 is Blasphemy Day, which from Wikipedia “educates   
   >>>>>>> individuals and groups about blasphemy laws and defends freedom   
   >>>>>>> of expression, especially the open criticism of religion which is   
   >>>>>>> criminalized in many countries”.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> religion from 2k or 1k or 200 or even 50 years ago is no longer   
   >>>>>> relevant.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>> Relevant to what?   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> relevant to helping people navigate life in 2020s and post.   
   >>>>   
   >>> It's relevant if you live anywhere in the Islamic controlled world, and   
   >>> many other places as well.   
   >>>   
   >> Yep. The answer to which you replied is hopelessly   
   >> parochial; "it's irrelevant to my immediate social circle,   
   >> therefore it's irrelevant for everyone and everywhere".   
   >>>   
   >   
   >   
   > i would regard religious people as fundamentally wrong, being on   
   > the wrong side of history. being wrong also means it provides no   
   > benefit to its adherents. they are choosing to become obsolete.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
      
   The closest to a religion I'd believe would be synchronicity+pansichysm, but   
   far from   
   any judeo-christian/islamic sect or dogma.   
      
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