>>14385402organized religions are fucking terrified of losing their monopoly on using the constant threat of death and oblivion to extract from the faithful.
life extension is also threatening to any long-term power structure because it becomes infinitely more difficult to hide, is almost by definition outnumbered and outgunned, and can no longer achieve self-enrichment by stealing money from future generations and the current faithful alike with the concept of long-term debt
>>14385336atheists have turned the standard models of cosmology and particle physics into a religion and i hate it
falsifiability is king, put philosophy back in charge of science where it belongs - the atheists upset that philosophy won't outright rebuke theists for believing in a non-zero quantity of deities can go to atheism conventions to cultivate their religious persecution complexes and treat pop-sci "mind-blowing" like revelatory religious experiences while the philosophers can get back to actually probing the depths of existence and not declaring themselves the infallible arbiters of truth
