In some ways academia is akin to a religion or cult that sprang up around the scientific method, and the cult has now diverged as far from the seed as far right christianity has from jesus’s teachings
John Shertzer Hittell– Estimates 1,000,000 total dead for the crusades to the East covering the period from 1095 to 1291.
“In the two centuries of this warfare one million persons had been slain, but it had not been without some compensations.” John Shertzer Hittell, A Brief History of Culture (1874), p.137.
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John M. Robertson– Estimates 9,000,000 total dead for the crusades to the East covering the period from 1095 to 1291.
“It is a reasonable calculation that in the two centuries from the first crusade to the fall of Acre (1291) there had perished, in the attempts to recover and hold the Holy Land, nine millions of human beings, at least half of them Christians. Misery and chronic pestilence had slain most; but the mere carnage had been stupendous.” John M. Robertson, A Short History of Christianity (1902), p. 278.
You might be stuck in an argumentative mode of thought, it seems like you replied to an interpretation of my comment that left out some salient details.
If you have some salient details about millions of people being slaughtered by academia, then please post them!
Otherwise my point stands that your comparison is ridiculous, because religion has killed millions more people than academia, despite Jesus's teachings and the "Thou Shalt Not Kill" commandment.
Religion has diverged vastly and diabolically further from the teachings of Jesus than academia has from the scientific method. There's no comparison.
You're being extremely anti-intellectual while whitewashing and rationalizing the slaughter of millions of innocent people, misery, carnage, and chronic pestilence, if you think academia is anywhere near as bad a cult as Christianity.
He compared it to a cult. Not all cults have killed millions of people. But many cults do stray very far from the original stated reason for the cult existing. For example some cults will treat their members like free labor and claim the goal is to make everyone happy through hard work and lack of worry about money. But then the leader will get a lot of money and start buying nice things for himself.
Buying a nice car with other people's labor isn't as bad as killing millions of people but it is straying very far from the original declared mission.
You seem to believe that murder is the metric that can be used to measure how well an organization is doing as far as following their mission.
