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I despise AI, however, religious exceptions for work are stupid.
Go to work for your church/mosque/temple if it's that important for you.
If you're a Christian, live like a bird in the field, like Jesus says. Go pick through the garbage can and be content in your righteousness
Also it usually it's just ok for their approved religions, anything else you are being stubborn
I'm not religious but I feel like people should have a right to take their annual leave for their religious holidays, yeah?
People should be able to take annual leave for whatever they want, provided contractual agreements and sufficient advance notice. I don't understand how any of it needs to do with religion.
Ok well say your company has ten people. One of them is a purpleite and every year the religion celebrates the merging of red and blue, every year - and it coincides with the superbowl. Seven of the ten people want to take that as a long weekend to watch the game. The company can handle this.. but oh no! wait, two of the remaining employees are related and share a mother who has people coming after her for personal reasons. She wants to send her kids to somewhere safe so she sends them to west philly. It turns out that's where the merging happens so the three of them can drive over together. Meanwhile two people have to cancel their superbowl plans to accommodate the purplite. The two related employees get to live safely with their mother's sister and her husbandi think that this is fine, it sucks for the superbowl crew but that's not as important as someone's religion or someone's family situation. I think if you read this and look in the mirror you will see it all with a fresh understanding.
This is something that The Satanic Temple needs to get on board with.
tl;dr:
Maus is a Unitarian Universalist, a pluralistic religion that's rooted in the inherent worth of every person. In April, she argued that AI didn't align with her religious beliefs, citing environmental and ethical concerns.
Just so you know which religion to convert to.
I mean, hypothetically couldn't you just pick any belief structure outside of the top ten and make shit up? I'm a card carrying member of The Satanic Temple (which also puts an emphasis on human worth and social conscience) and I feel like I could swing this.
There were already 100 reasons why the Unitarians are where it’s at.
But I really don’t think this is reason 101. All we have here is someone who asked their employer for this and was fortunate enough to have it granted.
That means nothing for anyone else. There is not some national law that all Unitarians have this protected right now.
So yeah… you might as well try on grounds that it offends Allah, because you’ll have the same odds.
I've known some cool unitarians. The org can collect a lot of upper middle class white people, but it's also the first place I really learned about LGBT rights in the 90s (I'm getting old) and other social justice stuff.
My UU ordained friend is a nonbinary activist who was in Minneapolis during the ICE shit.
The first time I went to a UU service, I was invited to a rationalist group that meets there.
It’s all of the good things about religion (ie - community. People who will meal train for you when you are in trouble, people who will teach your kids good shit) without much of the baggage.
I’m personally going to start attending either a UU or a really loosely Methodist group just for the social aspect. I think one of the failures of atheism is the lack of acknowledgment of the benefits of community and ritual. There’s not enough “third places” in the world, and churches can fill that roll quite well. Perhaps this is just my own recent near death experience speaking, but it’s good to have a community that cares about you.
Unseen University?
On a tour of our state's gay friendly churches (a work project) I met a unitarian universalist minister who was openly atheist, his congregation had no problem with it. That was a very weird but cool convo.
Oh, good. One of the few religions that isn't predicated on making all non-members lives miserable.
Trying to start a long, boring conversation about ethics has worked so far to keep people from forcing their slop machines on me, but it's nice to know there are options
"I'm a Butlerian."
But did you type that on your thinking machine?
I’m pretty sure that in Dune, all computers are banned, not just AI. You can’t even have a ship with a navigation computer.
the golden path
“You can now get an exemption” is a huge overstatement.
Someone in North Carolina asked for it and happened to get it from her employer. That does not provide any firm basis for anyone else to follow. Any of us could have tried this last month with the same odds we have now.
Guys I think I just found religion.
Join the Satanic Temple or some Humanist org or something. For some reason people lose their minds if your religion is just "none", but are at least more ok with it being something, even if the something had only one tenet and that was "none".
thank god.
Are you guys trying to get religion banned?
You say that like it's a bad thing
It might help.
At this point, I feel like religion >> blind corporate loyalty. At least religion still pretends to care about people
Maybe I am religious...
In a country where most states are fire-at-will. You don’t have the cultural integrity to effectively use something like this.
How about an atheist exemption?
Would be nice if philosophical stances were treated equal to religious ones, so if something is against your philosophical stances you could get the same exemption a religious person could.
Time for the Universal Life Church to step in.
As an ordained minister (and fully-paid Saint), would highly approve.
