▲ 877 ▼ thoughts and prayers for science (lemmy.ca) submitted 3 days ago by slothrop@lemmy.ca to c/memes@sopuli.xyz 146 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] Demdaru@lemmy.world -16 points 3 days ago (17 children) Oh, when you look at miracles, they do heal a lot! Some of it is even scientifically proven IIRC. Human mind is a funny thing. But in all cases, faith works on small scale, and quite often simply individual. So yeah...not even a start to science. permalink fedilink source hideshow 19 child comments replies: [–] cunnililgus@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago (1 child) You know what, even though everyone is downvoting you, I sort of agree with you. Persons faith can help him get better, physically and mentally. Either through placebo or peace of mind. Thats the whole shtick with people not being afraid cause god got their back, or people turning their life around because of accepting faith into their life. What's unfortunate with religion is the tendency of other humans exploiting that faith to commit awful things. Faith's IMO definitely a double-edge sword and very subjective, which is it's strength and weakness. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Demdaru@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 child) Yeeeep. Faith is a tool, especially if said faith is based on good intentions. It can be used for good (peace of mind, hospitality, feeding the poor, supporting communities), but even if faith itself was infallibly good, community aeound it simply will never be. And people who need to take shelter in faith often are more easily manipulated, sadly. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] cunnililgus@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago Fully agreed. permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (15 replies)
[–] cunnililgus@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago (1 child) You know what, even though everyone is downvoting you, I sort of agree with you. Persons faith can help him get better, physically and mentally. Either through placebo or peace of mind. Thats the whole shtick with people not being afraid cause god got their back, or people turning their life around because of accepting faith into their life. What's unfortunate with religion is the tendency of other humans exploiting that faith to commit awful things. Faith's IMO definitely a double-edge sword and very subjective, which is it's strength and weakness. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Demdaru@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 child) Yeeeep. Faith is a tool, especially if said faith is based on good intentions. It can be used for good (peace of mind, hospitality, feeding the poor, supporting communities), but even if faith itself was infallibly good, community aeound it simply will never be. And people who need to take shelter in faith often are more easily manipulated, sadly. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] cunnililgus@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago Fully agreed. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Demdaru@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 child) Yeeeep. Faith is a tool, especially if said faith is based on good intentions. It can be used for good (peace of mind, hospitality, feeding the poor, supporting communities), but even if faith itself was infallibly good, community aeound it simply will never be. And people who need to take shelter in faith often are more easily manipulated, sadly. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] cunnililgus@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago Fully agreed. permalink fedilink source parent
