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My attempt to make basic predictions for the future of humanity are as follows: 1. The emergence of artificial intelligence smarter than humans. AI will free people from the need to work, which will lead to a reduction in poverty, the disappearance of unemployment, provide all people with the...

Isn't such religious dogma outdated from the point of view of modern Western society? Now the Church even seems to sanctify same-sex marriages?

Here we are not talking about the need for marriage, but about whether it is considered a sin that young people usually have several other sexual partners before getting married?

In fact, when religious dogmas were laid down, sex before marriage could lead to unwanted pregnancy and even abortion, and could also contribute to the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Now, with modern contraceptives, this can be practically eliminated. In addition, modern doctors say...

Grigory Perelman is an example of how a scientist should study and work.

The age-old dream of humanity about the immortality of the soul will come true.

Now the idea of resurrecting the dead looks fantastic and contradicts the known basic laws of physics, but in the distant future scientists may discover more general laws of physics, according to which the resurrection of the dead will become possible.

As is known, according to the Abrahamic religions (Christianity, Islam, Judaism), believers and truth-tellers usually go to Heaven after death, and atheists and sinners usually go to Hell or even go into Non-existence after death. If in the distant future (say, in a few thousand years)...

There is also “Ethics of the Far North”. In Russia, in the Far North, in winter there are very low temperatures and very long distances between settlements - tens and hundreds of miles. If a truck breaks down on the highway, then the driver without help (for example, if there is no radio) may...

In modern society, different types of ethics can be distinguished: "Darwinian ethics": natural selection operates: the fittest survives, competition between individuals and entire communities leads to a zero-sum game. This type of ethics in modern society usually works in a capitalist economy...

Or are they doing charity in such a perverted way: the money collected through racketeering is given to the church so that the church can use it for charity?

On one forum they answered me: To which I replied:

That is, the Catholic mafiosi are counting on bribing the Lord God?

Or is their faith insincere, they only perform church rituals for appearances, to maintain decency in society? Or do they sin deliberately, ready to give their souls to the Devil in order to provide a normal life for their children, as Michael Corleone writes in a letter to his daughter Mary at...

I've recently become interested in the moral dilemma that may confront members of mafia clans such as the Corleone family in the film "The Godfather." On the one hand, they are devout Catholics, they go to the Catholic Church and baptize their children. On the other hand, they are bandits and...