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Re: Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies

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Post by thevillagechief »

OtomotO wrote: post #52
wolvesechoes wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How much better? Every honest description of Catholic Church, as any institution of this size and history, needs to be very nuanced. One of such nuances is a fact that it was one of the main, and sometimes strictly main, supporters and drivers of education and scientific progress. Other such nuance is that it very often punished and persecuted attempts to bring education and scientific progress. Both views of the Chu…

No crusades for one populae example. More advancements... No being opposed to actual enlightenment, because it doesn't sit well with the institution of power... I am talking about a real man of science here of course, not some egoistic, smart person that needs to be constantly prove they are the smartest or else their frail ego will collapse... Which there are plenty of in academia and science.

Why would a Catholic man of science necessarily oppose the crusades?

Re: Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies

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Post by keiferski »

usrnm wrote: post #29
OtomotO wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Imagine the pope being a man of science a couple of hundred years back... How much better the world could be.

A lot of very bad things were historically done by men of science

Just wait until you read what people like Von Neumann thought about preemptively using nuclear weapons.

It turns out that scientific brilliance has basically zero overlap with ethical wisdom. Science is great, but it’s not a replacement for philosophy.

Re: Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies

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Post by [deleted] »

brna-2 wrote: post #6

When you stop to think of it, historically people have told their secrets to the church, now they also tell them to AI. There is some kind of relation there, the power that people willingly give to an organization. The Ads are coming so I guess people will start to think about it a bit more.

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Re: Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies

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Post by simmerup »

OtomotO wrote: post #52
wolvesechoes wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How much better? Every honest description of Catholic Church, as any institution of this size and history, needs to be very nuanced. One of such nuances is a fact that it was one of the main, and sometimes strictly main, supporters and drivers of education and scientific progress. Other such nuance is that it very often punished and persecuted attempts to bring education and scientific progress. Both views of the Chu…

No crusades for one populae example. More advancements... No being opposed to actual enlightenment, because it doesn't sit well with the institution of power... I am talking about a real man of science here of course, not some egoistic, smart person that needs to be constantly prove they are the smartest or else their frail ego will collapse... Which there are plenty of in academia and science.

So you'd rather have Europe be Islamic I guess, if you're opposing the crusades

Re: Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies

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Post by curtisblaine »

wolvesechoes wrote: post #58
OtomotO wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No crusades for one populae example. More advancements... No being opposed to actual enlightenment, because it doesn't sit well with the institution of power... I am talking about a real man of science here of course, not some egoistic, smart person that needs to be constantly prove they are the smartest or else their frail ego will collapse... Which there are plenty of in academia and science.

But why man of science would avoid starting crusades? Moral virtue has nothing to do with being a man of science, and many men of science lacked it completely.

Exactly. We tend to forget that the crusades were an efficient way of assigning land (scarce) to the cadet branches of ruling families (abundant), or die trying.
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