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0395– 2167/07/07/11:48- LC’s apartment, living room
LC: Well, it’s… it’s all due to technology, isn’t it?
Zoa: Explain.
LC: The twentieth century… that’s when global telecommunications was becoming a thing, right? So people could be more exposed to religious ideas from around the world. It’s hard to insist that your religion is the only valid one when you can see literal millions of people who live good lives without it.
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LC: Also, the rise of science meant that things like lightning were no longer the inexplicable actions of angry deities, but were principles that people could discover and understand. God’s actions, if any, were more… uh… abstract and metaphorical.
LC: Also, there was evolution.
Doc: You’re mixing your centuries, Lee, but the broader point is sound, I suppose.
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LC: Rejecting the central authority of a single mandatory religion was what let people decide their purpose for themselves.
LC: It’s like how the industrial revolution of the seventeen hundreds led to the abolition of slavery, which in turn was when people started accepting ideas like bodily autonomy, or how the automation of most jobs in the twenty-sixties led to the modern freedom from work, rejecting the idea that you need to “deserve” to live.
LC: Philosophies don’t change the human condition, it’s the other way around! It’s just describing what people are already doing!
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Zoa: Okay, now apply that principle to your boner.
LC: Uh… the conditions of technology around me made my wiener hard, and all my big thoughts and feelings about it after the fact are just retroactive back-filling?
Doc: Lee, if I’d known this was all it took to make you confront your own reasoning and preconceptions, I’d have given you an erection years ago.
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