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   Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 00:23:27 JST Charlie Stross

   • pzmyers ?

   @pzmyers This would be the thing known until 2008 as the "Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion", right? So yet more god botherers claiming a spurious relevance.

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     Will Tuladhar-Douglas (yetiinabox@todon.nl)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 02:38:35 JST Will Tuladhar-Douglas

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     • pzmyers ?

     @cstross @pzmyers

     the problem with the Templeton lot is that they push a terrifyingly narrow version of religion in which everything reduces to a pleasantly intolerant Christianity, but claim to represent (or defend against atheists and communists) some imaginary "universal human religiosity". Nasty. They are also one of the only sources of funding for research in religion, and they pay lots to folks who will wear their theories. Nasty, nasty.