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Religious Cringe

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This is the official Lemmy for the r/ReligiousCringe***** subreddit. This is a community about poking fun at the religious fundamentalist's who take their religion a little bit too far. Here you will find religious content that is so outrageous and so cringeworthy that even someone who is mildly religious will cringe.

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 59 points 2 years ago (1 children)

With a few tweaks, that book is ready for Texas and Florida.

[–] phorq@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Just find and replace the name "Allah" with "God" and nobody would notice.

[–] LufyCZ@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

Feels the author knew he was writing bullshit and tried to actually sneak the truth in, in a way that's undetectable to the extremists vetting the thing.

[–] Nougat@kbin.social 27 points 2 years ago

Oh, look; it's more conflating of evolution with abiogenesis, alongside complete shortsightedness about the scales of space and time involved.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] teft@startrek.website 37 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well Britain did a little colonizing in that area of the world.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

I find that hard to believe. The british are nice people who respect other nations and have never stolen a chunk of ireland with murdering.

[–] june@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Because it’s fake.

[–] User_4272894@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Are we just ignoring that this is an obvious Photoshop?

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] User_4272894@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The chapter is titled "evolution" and the fact that we're on figure 24.16 leads me to believe there are at least fifteen other images in this chapter. If that's the case, it seems unlikely this section would be so far back in the chapter.

The section above literally talks about the results of natural selection on speciation.

When comparing content between the two sections, the top had lots of scientific vocabulary and creates valid points. The below section has multiple misspelled words and bad grammar. Tonally, very different.

Most obviously, the line spacing in this section is about half what it is in the above section.

[–] Lojcs@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Idk... In Turkey natural selection and speciation are in the curriculum but as far as I can tell it's forbidden to mention evolution. Doesn't seem like a large jump of logic to include a "btw evolution is wrong" section.

Also the line spacing on the right page seems closer to the bottom section.

[–] june@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

Why is this Pakistani textbook printed in English?

[–] sramder@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I like that apricots and figs are clearly appreciated as higher forms of life than starfish and hawks. 

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's not very clear how loins fit in that list, but then I'm not an evolutionary scientist.

[–] sramder@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

It reads like they switched to the grocery list at some point, and I have to say it’s sounding rather tasty.

[–] 01189998819991197253 3 points 2 years ago

I don't think the book author is, either...

[–] 01189998819991197253 12 points 2 years ago

This was hard to read for many reasons, including the run-on sentences and poor grammar. My favorite parts, however, were probably these excerpts:

  • "cannot be the result of chance vents"
  • "Primal soup"
  • "Loins"
[–] Forestial@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Texas called, and wants their book back

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Loins

Nice piece of comedy in this sea of fucking idiocy.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Florida is leaking

[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

My favorite part is that the first paragraph presents an example of evolution, and then the second paragraph said "evolution is bullshit." They probably took a preexisting evolution-believing textbook and squeezed in a paragraph here and there, but they can't keep the book self-consistent.

A classic case of proof by contradiction.

[–] VampyreOfNazareth@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

In English, why that's cultural appropriation sonny

[–] strawberry@kbin.run 1 points 1 year ago

humans can't reproduce something, must be fake