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Re:We don't know how the universe began, and we will never know by Fezzik on Saturday August 27, 2022 @10:03PM (#32625079)
It’s not writing it off (whatever that means here) but if you’re asserting Buddhism, Daosim, and Shinto do not have many foundational faith-based/supernatural elements you may want to review their sacred texts. Jainism I am less familiar with, but the other three are entirely founded in faith-based tenants that have no supporting evidence.

Background: degree in philosophy, focussing on philosophy of religion. I have read all the books. They are all fantasies, many very well written and fun to read, but no more fact-based than The Silmarillion.

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Re:We don't know how the universe began, and we will never know by tsol on Saturday August 27, 2022 @10:24PM (#32625190)
Uhm well it's more this part;

>religion does not and should not, especially with its centuries-long history of malice and suppression towards free and scientific thought

That I was referring to. Show me where Zoroastrianism, Sikhism, and Bahaism are against scientific thought.

Being familiar with a smattering of religious texts you learned in University is hardly enough to make such large claims about every single religion in the entire world.

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