God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter
God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter
Remember what happened with the Tower of Babel? Same type of deal.
<sigh> Once more: Elon Musk is not God.
This is the most often I've read someone talk of "God" or the bible in an assertive stance in many months and it's from a self-proclaimed atheist no less. 😵💫
I wonder, if the Wired editors made him change it, so that no religious people would be offended...
It uses a well known religious metaphor to get the point across. Would work the same with some well known historical example etc.
Oh yeah, I have no problem with using a metaphor, whether it's from a religious book or not. It just weirds me out how it is told as if it's a historical record with no doubt of it having happened that way.
For an atheist, the stories in religious books are more like fables – you don't believe that it happened that way, but you can still draw a learning from it. And when talking of fables, you don't recount them as facts, rather you point out every few sentences that you're simply recounting what's being told in the book.
You can do that in a neutral way, too, where you just say "the Bible reads..." and then people can choose to believe in it or not. And this text rarely does that, while also throwing in some opposite tropes. Had the author not stated that they're an atheist, I would have assumed they're basically a religious fundamentalist.
inshallah 😊🙏
Is there a version that's not behind a paywall?
Ups, sorry I didn't notice as my Firefox addon just circumvented that pay-wall automatically. I guess there is a version on the internet archive.
Thanks for linking to this extension!
@lemmyreader @ttmrichter "... a set of rules called the ActivityPub standard, which is a little like HTML had sex with a calendar invite"
🤣Very interesting article. .. especially the idea that human high-level behaviour goes into circles: "We Babelize and de-Babelize"
Wise words! 👍