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Tolu181:
Godzilla vs Kong

9/10

Tolu181:
they gave good fight scenes or were you expecting Kong to rob a bank and get arrested by Godzilla kinda story...

xynerise:
Godzilla Vs King Kong.

Ermmm....nothing so spectacular

Abeg, it is just there

6/10

budaatum:
No. You are talking about religious faith as you and many seem to understand it.

Matthew 7 is all about the sort of faith one should have. It says how one should do research in order to have a solid foundation for ones faith and shows the folly of faith built on my ignorance.

If you consider Jesus teaching science, as in, use your senses science, you might see it as such. It is after all the reason he was an eye (senses) opening optician.

Pecuman:
Faith doesn't require you to believe in something without proof.

Just look how the word is used outside of the religious context.

Faith is a synonym to Trust.

Pecuman:
- Heretics were persecuted not scientists. Sometimes those heretics were scientists, most times those heretics were farmers, some other times those heretics were bankers, etc.

- Isn't that the point of a Miracles, an even that can shun already established laws? Like what is a miracle to you if not something than can ignore physical laws?

Image123:
Would be, tend to are not facts but opinions. Is your boss religious or not?

Image123:
"Persecution" of scientists is not christian. Humans doing things does not make them christian if such things are not done in or commanded by the Bible.
There is nothing like anti scientific miracle. Miracles are supernatural, science is natural. They are two different planes, not anti.

Pecuman:
Because secularism got popular in the Protestant revolution as a solution to Europe's wars of religion and the West still remains the bastion of scientific progress today.

Move outside the Western and Secularized world an the to scientists there aren't Atheist.

People really, underestimate the global cultural influnece of the West sometimes.

Image123:
What part of the question is not clear?

Image123:
Do you have a credible percentage or data for this? There are scientists, doctors, engineers, professionals, professors, astronauts, and other powerful and intelligent all over the world who are religious or you are not aware?

Moneyboyz:
I doubt if she would let a black cöck fertilize her eggs.

Image123:
Interesting. Explain how christianity holds back science or women. Gays have nothing to do with pros[erity, poverty or world economies and development. Maintain focus.

Pecuman:
Only today but not for most of the history of the profession

Pecuman:
Buddhism is a religion that isn't necessarily as religious as Christianity. It is much more of a philosophy in my opinion while Christianity is more of a Theology.

Like you can literally be an Atheist and Buddhist or not believe in like 99.9% of the supernatural (including the soul) mad be buddhist.

As for Hinduism it is more the exception to the rule in my opinion but even then it is still much less rigid than Christianity, again, Hindu thinkers that can be considered Atheists have existed since ancient times and there isn't nearly as much of a bother about Orthodoxy as among the Abrahamic religions.

armadeo:
Authentic links dey?

armadeo:
Is this out

Standing5:
Maybe other religions though. Christianity isn't applicable to the above. Virtually all top scientist are Christians.

Sibrah:
How did religion hold back science?

Pecuman:
Asia was probably less religious in the past (or at least just as) given the nature of Dharmic religions of confucianism and if religion hindered the West, then why did the arguably more fanatically religious Western Christians rise to dominion and the even more fanatically religious sub-section of that (USA) rise to the world stage.

Atheism is the ideology of a civilization at the end of its rise, whether Qin China or Late Antiquity Greece. Only this time around it is more wide spread than just among the elites

Pecuman:
No it didn't, if anything Christianity allowed science to progress faster. Basically from the period of Rome's ascendence onwards, Greece science and philosophy had ground to a halt, almost everything from then on was scale up of what already existed. Like can you even name one great philosopher of natural philosophy of the period of Rome's rise?

And Christianity wasn't a Global phenomena, so why, oh why is that if christianity held back science it wasn't out paced by non-christian and non-institutional religion areas like China or India (among many others).

It didn't hold back women's rights, like do you want to compare women's rights in Rome, Athens influneced Greece or the Islamic world to Europe? Like the Christian world have several Women Emperors and Kings, whether Isabella of Spain, Irene of the Eastern Roman Empire or Æthelflad of Mercia. Can you mention any equivalent from the Classical or Ancient Era from the same regions that Christianity became ascendant in?

Fine Christians did and still do hold back Gay rights, but the acceptance of Gays and other LGBT+ is oft exaggerated and they were either not tolerated or integrated into society in ways that would be considered "homophobic" today.

Human beings exist for more than just being fuel to the economy, thank you.

I mean, yes but not really for being scientists. Heretics came from all walks of life and while I am not defending the practice, again, Heretics came from all works of life. You could write that "Christians persecuted Farmers in the middle ages" and you would be right.

Like Copernicus the guy that popularized heliocentrism worked for the church, Galileo was something of a braggard that also challenged the priesthood on theologically touchy subjects.

And hey maybe near enlightenment era Christian advancements isn't what you were referring to, then what of during the dark ages, when under the Orthodox Christian Eastern Roman Empire, John the Grammarian, a church man who discovered works on impetus, a break through in physics that would later become a basis for Galileo's works. Or the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas grounding the basic assumption of modern science that the world is fundamentally rational.

And if scientific advancement isn't enough for you, what about the various technological advancements like the wheel and axel, horse shoes, heavy plows, water wheels, arch and glass supported cartedrals, etc.

And if European advancement isn't enough for you, what about the works of Zara Yakob, a Christian philosopher whose Christian philosophy is considered the beginning of Sub-Saharan African philosophy?.

So, no Christianity didn't cause a dint in the rate of scientific and technological progress.

abduleez1:
Cc Logic007 Kaycee7


Na the problem of WOKENESS be this.


Na censorship sure pass like dis.


If a character or story has such content or characterization, I don't see any reason not portraying it.

It's Life and it's brutal. And things ain't all rosy. After all the audiences know what they're heading into.
No be like say na PG-13 Universe person dey.

Image123:
i am absolutely certain you are not referring to Christainity.

Image123:
You got this conclusion from what source again? What drives/enhances development and wealth if i may ask?

Image123:
The point had since been made but you were trying to rewrite history by not readily accepting the fact that the West practiced and exported religion like i first wrote. Religion didn't hinder America, Europe and parts of Asia from development. Many of these were religious and are still religious.

Kaycee7:
Why would anybody even try to pretend there's no sex in Middle-Earth? Did they reproduce by mitosis or what? And I'm not clamoring for a petition against Amazon to remove the nudity.
I'm just reacting as someone who grew up with a PG LoTR. I mean, I've looked up rule 34 of the characters so it's not like I have an aversion to seeing elven tiddies
Just having them in the canon media is a bit unexpected.

Kaycee7:
GoT's source material, A Song of Ice and Fire, was already geared towards adult readers. The Lord of The Rings was a PG book and the adaptations followed that same tone. So going the R-rated route just feels weird to me.

Beorn:
You shouldn't wonder anymore. They have probably forgotten the mediocre film Whedon and WB served us 3 years ago, while some downloaded a poor quality version of the movie and expected it to be good. I mean 480p mkv version of Synder's Cut is nothing less than 900mb, but some people are watching the 500mb quality of it in BBRip format. Na Nokia Torch quality be that.