This is the time to start invoking all of the gods for a more dynamic and adaptive office environment.

"Listen, Ryan, I'm gonna need you to ask yourself what Enki would do in this situation, ok? You're giving Enlil when I need an Enki. Dammit, get your head in the game. Have you not been keeping up on this stuff? Seriously, if you've been experimenting with that Jesus stuff again I'm gonna come unglued, I swear. Get off the fuckin cross already, jeez."

"Fascists enable Christian Nationalist Karens to abuse coworkers on the government's funds."

This shit only flies as long as it isn't a Muslim doing it.

Reminds me of Valarie Hodges in Lousiana like a dozen years ago. Where she stopped supporting religious vouchers for school cause an Islamic school wanted to use them and she didn't realize that could happen.

Time to start turning my coworkers into atheists.

All jokes aside, this ends when we ban orginized religion.

Nobody should be publicly religious. Do it in your own home.

I hope the Satanic Temple can have some fun with this.

THANK YOU TRUMP for allowing me to FINALLY share the Teachings of ALLAH with other Government Workers!

I'm sure when atheists and satanists start proselytising there will be outrage - "we really meant Christians should allowed to bother their co-workers not you guys"

i’m waiting for this to backfire on him as muslims openly pray in their workplace at the designated times

Let's start spreading the unspeakable ancient knowledge of the first one. The one that has no name but an idea of an existence. Now hum the deep tone of the empty.

Edit: Fuck CBS

I don't think people really understand what's comming. Everyone's like "so now everyone can talk about their respective religion, haha". But where I see this going is only the one right religion being acceptable in near future and everyone who's making clever remarks being outlawed and prosecuted. The fact we're not there yet makes the obvious progression to that none the less scary.

So this is where the new new atheist movement will start.

Also, remember epstein? whatever happened to that guy?

"Please talk about anything else but the epstein files"

I look forward to promoting my all powerful Lucifer.

Hail Satan!

Time to found Epsteinology, a religion based around the release and realization of the Great Nefarious Files to bring about the Grand Awakening and destruction of the Orange Menace for the good of all Humanity.

Do you have a minute to talk about our lord and savior Baphomet?

Satanism pamphlets in the break room!

Time for TST to start distributing literature through the ranks of the federal government

And fully expect this to only become worse as time goes on. The Christo-taleban has full steam now and won't stop

I'm sure a lot of people are re-thinking their religious beliefs after the fucking devil was elected.

Surely that goes both ways, and one side has a lot more evidence...

Hail Hydra :)

Ugh. Looking at the comment sections in posts about religious authoritarians, is about as insufferable as the comment sections in posts asking people to reduce their animal consumption.

oh OH I've seen this episode before!

To date there is zero evidence for interaction between material nature and the spirit. And not for want of looking, as scientists and clergymen alike have been searching for centuries now, anomalous exceptions are extremely rare. Even the standard model of particle physics is transparent to any spiritual factor.

So why should we look at it? Because the human mind, to perceive and process sensory stimulus into situation awareness, to remember, to read and speak and understand facial expression, to compute, and to engage in reason — for all these capacities — it requires power.

While LLM generative systems power demand is calling for the re-commissioning of nuclear power plants, the human brain eats up (according to anatomists) about 20% of our caloric intake, when we are awake, at rest. Less when we're at full run, more when we're computing the integral of the acceleration of rocket thrust as fuel is spent, or landing an airliner by yoke.

But it means, if we have a soul, and that soul remembers its sins, can reason why such behaviors were sinful; if that soul can feel the fires of Hell, this processing takes energy, and an energy source. That means interaction between the physical and spirit, which means there should be something to detect. There should even be side channels.

No evidence of energy exchange, no side channel heat or sound, it strongly (not absolutely) implies there's no spirit to detect. Or if there is, it might be so delicate that interference from natural phenomena (lightning strikes and CME emps come to mind) would shatter it.

The exception is the simulated-universe hypothesis: If the universe is a simulation in a computer program (or Azathoth's dream; Ia! 🦑🌊🌌) then all our recorded observations are of simulated events, and souls can simply be simulated. But some of us object to the notion we're an object in a program or a figment in a dream.

If there's no detectable energy powering our souls, then they could be in the core of the sun and not feel a thing, nor have an eff to give. No regrets, no memories, no pain, no misery.

Most likely, by far, we are thinking meat.

Heck I who am awake today can be a different iteration than me, who was awake yesterday. The separation of time when cerebral cortex activity is shut down for maintenance (non REM sleep) may indicate separate beings, like an AGI powered down and rebooted, with its past memories front-loaded. We're the same for day-to-day quotidian purposes, but our breaks in continuity raise philosophical questions.

And all this is before we get into the incomprehensible vastness of our galaxy, in which earth is barely a mote, or the universe featuring immense strings of galaxies, in which our Milky Way is a dot.

And all this is before we discuss the multiple great filters that are imminent before us, and as a species we are ill prepared to navigate. When we go extinct in the next century or too, it will be part of the Holicene dying, and none of our gods, myths and cultures will survive. All of our operas and symphonies, all of our paintings and sculpture, all of our cinematic thrillers and cozy mysteries and Ghibli animations and fine cuisine will evaporate into geographical layers, and the universe won't even notice.

All this is to say, I've thought about this and confronted my personal insignificance. I've come to terms with mortality and the end of society and species. I get why people cling to notions that we are something special, even though all indications from nature imply we are not.

I say, bring it.

Let's see what happens if I start promoting atheism and mocking belief in Bronze Age alpha males in the sky.

I don't really see the problem? I'd assume this includes any belief system, including atheism?

The headline is a bit sensationalist. The article is just "colleagues should be allowed to debate religion"