@Phracker2Art @punishmenthurts @autistics
" think you're confusing morality with science. Science is strictly amoral. By its very nature, it doesn't advocate or take a moral stance on obedience, or anything else for that matter."
you have to combine them.
1. I do not believe Jesus is supernatural. Bible verse "1 John 4:20" SPELLS THIS OUT - you do not #SeenJesus or "See God". Fiction character, a metaphor. Star Wars "Force Ghost, "Hamlet's Ghost" are comparative to the #character of Jesus in a storybook.
2. Fiction stories like the film "Dumb and Dumber" and Spongebob and Bible are FAR BETTER SELLING and draw much bigger crowd audiences than nonfiction learning.
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YEAR 1995:
“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a (year 1995) foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance. As I write, the number-one videocassette rental in America is the movie Dumb and Dumber. “Beavis and Butthead” remain popular (and influential) with young TV viewers. The plain lesson is that study and learning — not just of science, but of anything — are avoidable, even undesirable.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995, page 59
Attraction (popularity) to fiction is core of what I am preaching #TooPreachy on Mastodon.