Thankful to Science

I added a large number of celebrities to my list of sinners yesterday. I copied them from another list that included Tweets and other types of public statements. I didn't have to look up any quotes because they were all in the list that I was copying from. This made it quick and easy to extend my list. It also highlighted some interesting aspects of the vaccine-mania. The foremost of them being the widespread tendency to express gratitude towards science and scientists.

A lot of the Tweets included a "thank you science" note. This illustrates to what extent science has become a god to many people, because those who express this type of gratitude are no less religious than those believing in God. Instead of "thank you God" they say "thank you science".

However, science is nothing more than a structured approach towards the study of nature, aka God and His creation. Science can be done properly, with due respect to nature and its complexities, or it can be done sloppily with disregard to complexities and a willingness to hide uncertainties and caveats. Promoting a vaccine with unknown long term side-effects is not science done properly. It's tyranny. But those who blindly believe in science are unable to see this.

Making the charade even more absurd is the emergence of patron saints and Jesus figures. There's this idea that Anthony Fauci and science are the same thing. He's Jesus, as it were. We can thank Fauci for the vaccines just as much as we can thank science.

But the religion of science isn't limited to vaccines. There's also climate change, and it too comes with a central religious figure. Greata Thunberg is the patron saint of climate change believers. She's also the youngest person on my list of public figures promoting the poorly tested vaccines. This comes as no surprise because science, Fauci and Greta is a trinity on par with God, Jesus and the holy spirit.

All of this is done in such bad taste that it serves to repel people like myself. It's a travesty of science, which should be about studying nature with an open mind. It's also a travesty of religion, which should be about the mysteries of existence. It should encourage us to be ourselves to the fullest, and to trust in nature's immense ability to provide for us. There's also wisdom and past experiences encoded into religion, and sloppy science is a horrible alternative to all of this.

The result of this is that I, and many liberty minded people with me, have turned religious over the past years. We're not rushing to churches to hear truths sanctioned by authority. Rather, we're looking for insights into the past and how previous generations have dealt with times such as ours. The Bible has become relevant to the liberty movement, with stories and insights we can use to navigate the madness that surrounds us. No wonder then that Bible quotes are increasingly popular among the liberty minded.

Greta Thunberg

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