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Looks like a hate speech from the pulpit

Science is a tool to solve our problems and answer our questions. If it scares you to understand how the world around you works, stay ignorant and skip out on science class. Choose not to believe in it. Whatever.

Honestly, I don't see why people group science and religion so close together. They are two different things.

He's assuming that every single person who uses technology, over indulges, and doesn't explore the world around them. This is true in some cases, but to clump everybody into such a category is completely ridiculous.

He's assuming the worst of everyone, and grossly generalizing. His argument doesn't hold any water.

You can still have wonder and meaning in a world largely explained by science. There's still a lot beyond our little planet that we haven't fully explored, for one. There are many incredible things in our world that, even though we understand them, are still very amazing. Like how our bodies battle infections and repair damage, or how each of us who are born are created from one of billions of sperm produced by an individual, most of which died. Or working out how the human brain works, how we observe the world and process information!

"Meaning" is created by us, it's not something handed to us by a divine being. To lament not having your life's meaning handed to you is ridiculous. You were unreasonable to expect that; the universe is not unreasonable for not giving it to you.

If you can't handle the fact that every irrational idea you'd like to believe in isn't always true, then boohoo for you. The rest of us would like to continue living in the real world, learning things that can have real benefits for us.

A lot there so hard to respond briefly.

I disagree with his idea that science or knowledge make people worse off. What people choose to do with knowledge or science may sometimes make some people worse off, but that is not the fault of the science or people who made a discovery public. Everything good in life is prone to abuse.

I also disagree that the church's attempts to limit science or knowledge were always done with benevolent intention. At least in many situations it was clearly done for reasons of power.

The "camerlengo" is a luddite.

im sorry it was to long to read but i think aethist win if it wasent for use u wont be txting us now would u u would be killing freanch u bastereds i hate cristians u blasphmamous savage savant creatures u are among the worst of the humanly kind the bible is explained 2 be fake by many ways i shall tell the ones i like most becues its to long god sightings and what not are caused by our limbic shystems and im sorry i just got bored im gonna go becuse this 1st passage is 3 pages long

Waaaaaaaaaaay tooooooooooooo loooooooooooong

It is a work of fiction, just like Jude the Obscure or Moby Dick.

You can probably see this great wall of text from low earth orbit.