Valnao@sh.itjust.works to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-210 days agoQuebec passes secularism law banning street prayers and prayer rooms in universitieswww.ctvnews.caexternal-linkmessage-square160fedilinkarrow-up1262arrow-down11
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minus-squareGlytch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·10 days agoAnd you believe this definition to be true?
minus-squarea4ng3l@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down3·10 days agoNope. I don’t need to believe in them, they just are. Produced by persons undoubtedly smarter than I am.
minus-squareGlytch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·10 days agoSo you trust this definition because experts have told you it is so?
minus-squarea4ng3l@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down3·10 days agoHow are agreed upon definitions remotely similar to religious beliefs ?
minus-squareGlytch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·10 days agoReligious beliefs are agreed upon systems of opinions about philosophy. Definitions are agreed upon opinions of what words mean. Both were constructed by humans to better understand and communicate about our world and our place in it.
And you believe this definition to be true?
Nope. I don’t need to believe in them, they just are. Produced by persons undoubtedly smarter than I am.
So you trust this definition because experts have told you it is so?
How are agreed upon definitions remotely similar to religious beliefs ?
Religious beliefs are agreed upon systems of opinions about philosophy. Definitions are agreed upon opinions of what words mean.
Both were constructed by humans to better understand and communicate about our world and our place in it.