Pope urges Silicon Valley to avoid slide toward new “barbarism”

Re:Pope urges Silicon Valley to avoid slide toward new “barb... by Apocryphon on Saturday September 28, 2019 @01:30AM (#21098653)

The Church of Scientology doesn't have a flock of over one and a third billions. And unique among religions, the Roman Catholic Church possesses enough temporal power to possess its own sovereign nation-state.

It's perfectly possible to evaluate the statements of an organization that one is morally or ideologically opposed to without endorsing them, especially when that organization is one of the most influential structures in human history. At the very least, it's helpful in determining how the masses of adherents might react to those statements.

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Re:Pope urges Silicon Valley to avoid slide toward new “barb... by mattigames on Saturday September 28, 2019 @04:53PM (#21102783)

Evaluating or repeating their statements is to give them power, if the nazi party (yes I went there) would still exist I would not give an ounce of attention to their speeches even if they had a couple billion followers.

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Re:Pope urges Silicon Valley to avoid slide toward new “barb... by Apocryphon on Saturday September 28, 2019 @04:57PM (#21102800)

Well you should, as even in the modern day we listen to the words of all sorts of dictators and demagogues, at least to know what to expect in the future. That’s just how news works.

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