I was born and raised in an Eastern Orthodox Christian family. Became a theistic Satanist in the 1980s - more specifically a Luciferian. It even got me a conscription exemption. Still one to this day.

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      14 days ago

      I really hate when people equate them. science is not a religion. Is is the study of the universe in fact not in opinion and guesses.

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        14 days ago

        I completely agree but I still think there’s an act of faith and belief in science because the vast majority of people will never understand most of what science has proved that they use in their daily lives, let alone the more advanced stuff that most scientists will never fully understand.

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          13 days ago

          I’d say it’s probably on the borderline of faith. It’s less faith and more of a necessity due to the limited capacity of the human brain.

          You build on foundational knowledge, and in science the goal is to question everything instead of blind faith in what you know