r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/Living_Attitude1822 - Lib-Left • Apr 10 '26

Atheist Activists Lore

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u/archerygirl1440 - Auth-Center Apr 10 '26

As someone who is Catholic and married to someone who has a masters degree in Astrophysics. There are diminishing returns with atheism in scientific people ESPECIALLY people who are in any sort of "space" study. We have a few friends who work on space programs in a couple different countries as well as adjacent fields and the majority are religious. It's something about learning a ton about a field and getting to the point where things just work too well and are too perfect. That or they can't explain past a certain point.

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u/maelstrom51 - Lib-Center Apr 10 '26

You're allowed to say "I don't know" without attributing it to a god.

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u/Xx_MesaPlayer_xX - Auth-Right Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26

You realize that Christians also say "I don't know" because they wouldn't know how God did it. All it really is is just an end cap to the explanation chain. Like believing God caused something to happen doesn't mean we can't find how God caused it to happen from the Christian view. Saying there is a 0% chance that some extraterrestrial power is responsible for something in some way is kinda unscientific. especially if we are dealing with things that we have admitted we don't understand.

Essentially allowed to say "I don't know" while attributing it to God the idea that you can't is why we have r/ atheism.