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    1 day ago

    Man it sucks so hard that humans have been held back by religious fucks such as checks notes Isaac Newton.

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      11 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.”