Extensions are just suggestions to your OS on how to open the files.

I use it to know the filetype for binary files, or what is the purpose/format of the text inside is for text files. But you can just save anything as anything. You can open PDF in text editor and edit things inside too if you know what you’re doing.

I mean if you believe in God knowing everything and everything is happening because of his will, then that gives you the ability to rationalize everything, doesn’t it?

Oh you have cancer? God gave it to you, if you didn’t deserve it he’d have cured it. Done, use that everywhere: poor, homeless, immigrant, race, sick, traffic, lightening, flood, airplane crash, school shooting, …

That’s why blind faith is dangerous. And the idea of afterlife because they just do whatever now.

This was going on under the surface all this time, growing and growing, people just did not see it as a valid concern thinking “crazy people” or “stupid people” will “come around eventually”. They did not expect there’d be enough of them to pull the carriage backwards.