/lit/ - Literature

>>2277600

I see what you're trying to do, but you've shot yourself in the foot.

Being in control of our environment through science and technology has increased our quality of life in the last 300 years exponentially and vitally, we wouldn't be able to have this discussion were it not for the desire to be in control.

And science can't give a mandate for anything other than the alleviation of suffering from the human species, implying it can give a mandate for anything else is a fundamental misunderstanding of what science is.

>>2277604

I was wondering when someone was going to bring up those guys, a perfect example of theocratic dictatorship, where the leaders are even professed to have performed supernatural feats. You may call them atheist, but you cannot call them secular.