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there’s been a lot of ways of rectifying what’s obviously true and scriptures over the years.

which is amusing because they’ll do anything to not admit their scripture-writers were wrong. It was written by people with a fixed- and flawed- understanding of the world they lived in. (We too have a fixed and flawed understanding, in point of fact. Its a bit better than theirs, mind, but it’s still flawed.)

“yeah. they believed that. they were wrong” isn’t really all that damaging to the over all story. But they think it is.

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skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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- FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  Some religions update their interpretations. The Catholic Church, for example, has taken different points of view over the centuries on various things as they were proven to be false.
  
  most denominations and sects do, yes. There are still those more fringe-cases that absolutely do not.
  
  If I remember correctly, the Catholic Church doesn’t even rule out alien life at the moment. I remember reading a while ago that they were skeptical, but if aliens are proven to exist, they hope to find an alien species that did not betray God like humanity did in the garden of Eden.
  
  It’s not a betrayal, because they were innocents and had no knowledge. in that story, god created the scenario and then allowed it to happen… and then gaslit the shit out of humanity ever since.
  
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positiveWHAT@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
WDYM we also have a fixed understanding? I’m as fluid as science.

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- squaresinger@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  History is full of great and not so great scientists who just couldn’t accept a paradigm shift that totally changed their field of science.
  
  Germ theory for example was a big one that got rejected by most of the medical scientists and professionals for decades.
  
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- FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I mean our conception is fixed to what we currently know. (Or “know”) in the broad scheme of things it would be rather rare to come across something that changes your fundamental understanding, right.
  
  Looking back we can see that a lot of what people thought was straight up stupid. like barnacle geese… coming from… barnacles
  
  But an observer looking back from far in the future at us… will likely see some of our beliefs as ridiculous.
  
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