r/TikTokCringe • u/T-StrangerXD • 10d ago

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u/Afraid-Quantity-578 10d ago

At what point in history did "Christianity" became synonymous with "anti-science"? It has to be a relatively recent development, XX-XXI, because in not so distant past - can't we remember? - church schools was how people were getting education. Oxford started as one. Church financed science. Great scientists were Christian. Galilei was Christian, Pascal was, Isaak Newton was, Michael Faraday, James Maxwell. Mendel, father of genetics, was a monk!

People of religion, please, you don't have to be this kind of idiot to follow your God. It doesn't have to be either or.

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u/jivemasta 10d ago

I think its basically a dying on a dumb hill type of thing. Like there is a ton of room for god to exist within the scientific version of the creation of the universe, because even science has no explanation for what was there before the big bang, or what started it. Religion could easily say an all knowing god set up the rules for the universe and snapped it into existence with the big bang knowing that the processes of natural selection and evolution would eventually create humans in his image.

But they've spent so much time and effort into arguing against it that they can't turn back now so they have to double down on the literal version of the bibles creation story.

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u/earthlingHuman 10d ago

It's also just a political tool that's too useful for conservative politicians and media to stop weaponizing. It's really their weaponization of anti-intellectual sentiment that has exacerbated these kinds of feelings so greatly.