Okay just hear me out, i know people who didnt commit suicide basically just because they could hang onto a few things, including religion. I think organized religion is horrible just as much as the next guy but there is some merit in religion for people who need a mental crutch.

God took away the foreskin...

Science will bring it back...

I'm 14...

And part of my dick is missing...

Religion: thoughts and prayers
Science: thoughts and peers

Not mutually exclusive though I can understand how the West's experience has led them to that conclusion.

Though there are many scientists in the West that are religious.

One should understand that the purpose of prayer and community isn't necessarily to improve material circumstances.

No one prays harder than a scientist waiting for a peer review.

can we stop with this early 2010s debate?

it's bullshit all the way. Science is also used to create weapons which creates record numbers of amputees, and religion is still used as propaganda to justify those wars. And even with prosthetic limbs, access might be limited based on profitability.

the main difference is community support, class issues, capitalism...

Science and technology advancement by itself is dangerous if society doesn't advance as well. regardless of the specific religion or lack thereof.

Saying that as an absolute science nerd with a STEM PhD,

Religious people aren't bothered or surprised at all when their prayers don't come true. On the other hand, if their cell phone or car or air conditioner suddenly stops working without warning, they're absolutely shocked and dismayed.

My point is that even the most religious people actually believe in science far more than they believe in their religion. They're just too stupid to realize it.

Thought the second religion image was suppose to be an Epstein joke

Faith healing works. I know because it cured me of my decapitation after I was cremated and my remains were fed to a giant lizard.

I look at it this way in terms of spirituallity... (Aka psychopath minded religion excluded.)

Kid has 1 arm.

Community that doesn't have the means or knowledge for science helps promote hope and faith that keeps the kid going.

Science does it's thing, as it always has and creates an arm.

Kid is able to get the new arm because the community and faith helped keep his spirits up so he didn't suicide out of hopelessness.

...The real enemy is the marketing and psychological manipulation tainting everything. It's not just religions. It rapes everything for all that it can benefit from. Every demographic is observed and bled of all its authentic soul. From religions, to cultures, governments, arts, and even sciences.

Meh. It's not like religious people aren't also doing science. Like most of my labmates are slightly religious (but I'm not lol).

You're missing part of the appeal. In the right column, there's a huge pile of money going toward the design and production of that arm. In the left column, there's a huge pile of money going to a faith healer's private jet. Sure, functioning prosthetic arms are pretty cool, but private jets are super cool.

Here in the states, you can now add a 4th panel. first one shows a casket, second one shows a vaccinated kid

Religion:

If have only 1 hand, to be happy, just have to join them both

Religion just doesn't work as well if you don't have a priest to molest the kid, this experiment ignores that and is therefore ipso facto dumbo, point blank period end of story nuff said

Amazing.