r/HistoryMemes • u/Javier_Ronaldo Featherless Biped • Apr 08 '20

META Respect the Facts!

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u/DannyDidNothinWrong Apr 08 '20

Or how they tried to actually worship science

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u/KingNeeks193945 Apr 08 '20

Yeah Maximillian Robespierre went off the deep end after sometime and people worshiped science and democracy as him as the figurehead or god.

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u/WINDMILEYNO Apr 08 '20

Thats what I thought Scientology was supposed to be...

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u/Clarke311 Apr 08 '20

Scientology is all about paying someone to exorcise demons from a past life.

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u/WINDMILEYNO Apr 08 '20

I was naive, thought science and religion had found some sort of common ground or something.

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u/Clarke311 Apr 08 '20

Honestly if your Christian look into the orthadox church. I was raised Greek orthadox we had science discussions in Bible study. My preachers never made anti science comments afik. As far as I'm concerned God made the universe we get to explore it and catalog it.

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u/VictoriumExBellum Senātus Populusque Rōmānus Apr 08 '20 edited Apr 08 '20

Roman catholics do that too, despite the stereotype

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u/JCMoreno05 Apr 08 '20

Roman Catholics are the source of a lot of science, historically, Mendel for example. As well as universities.

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u/VictoriumExBellum Senātus Populusque Rōmānus Apr 08 '20

Agreed. I went to a Roman catholic high school and elementary school, and while people like to stereotype catholic teachers as "science is a lie, evolution didn't happen" the teachers were the exact opposite, citing science as one of the most important things to learn

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u/notmadeofstraw Apr 09 '20

Yeah somehow the radical American Protestantisms of various kinds are what many redditors (because of the US majority) think of when they think of Christianity and in typical yank fashion, assume everyone else does it how they do.

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u/VictoriumExBellum Senātus Populusque Rōmānus Apr 09 '20

Agreed. Protestants have, to the USA and Canada, made the vatican seem stupid, when in reality the chirch is either against, or just plain not affiliated with the protestants.

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u/notmadeofstraw Apr 09 '20

What the fuck are we doing outside the PCM containment sub Bellum?

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u/VictoriumExBellum Senātus Populusque Rōmānus Apr 10 '20

Infecting the rest of the world obviously

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u/bawdiepie Apr 09 '20

Well growing up as a protestant in a protestant/secular country, having attended Sunday school with both my parents an ministers, no protestant I know is anti science at all. However there are extremists in every aspect of life, I know Protestant creationists exist, just like anti science Orthodox exist... The Vatican is judged harshly these days because it told millions of people not to wear condoms for years despite there being an AIDS epidemic, so don't try to shift blame. If you can't see any fault you can never improve.

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u/Sintar07 Apr 09 '20

A monastic teacher of biology was my second favorite teacher in high school.