• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 hours ago

    Isaac Newton’s religion was as relevant to his scientific achievements as Hitler’s vegetarianism was to his atrocities.

    In other words: correlation doesn’t equal causation.

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      8 hours ago

      Maybe it was, maybe it wasn’t, that’s not my point. My point is that the statement “religious fucks have held us back for millennia” is nonsensical because before the last three hundred years or so everyone was a “religious fuck.”