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Re:The World Has (Probably) Passed Peak Pollution by monero-xmr on Thursday May 09, 2024 @08:10PM (#40314243)
It’s also possible that secular society creates effective off-ramps to convert the hyper-religious to secular values. I’m uncertain if this will work given how successful the in-group remains despite the internet and modern social media.
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Re:The World Has (Probably) Passed Peak Pollution by skissane on Thursday May 09, 2024 @08:21PM (#40314312)
Many ultra-Orthodox Jews use "Kosher Internet filters" – filters that block content that isn't approved by their rabbis. In Israel, you can buy "Kosher phones" which have this software pre-installed by the telco and locked down so you can't remove it.

People assume that technology necessarily encourages secularism, but it doesn't inevitably do so. Technology also makes possible new methods of social control which can be used to suppress secularism.

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Re:The World Has (Probably) Passed Peak Pollution by silverquiet on Thursday May 09, 2024 @08:17PM (#40314289)
God is dead and we have killed him - Nietzsche was onto this quite early into modernity.
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Re:The World Has (Probably) Passed Peak Pollution by Apocryphon on Thursday May 09, 2024 @08:11PM (#40314255)
Too early to tell. Wait a couple more generations.
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