That's a great mug.
I'm not even sure where to start with the shortcomings of the other quote however. Perhaps here...
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When the institutions of science stop creating the means and methods for global destruction and wholesale human misery... maybe then they can spout their bull# about how morally superior science is to religion
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As Neil DeGrasse Tyson explains, it's not the discovery that's immoral, it's the application. "Would you go back in time and say 'Don't smelt the ore to make the iron because you could make a knife and cut yourself'? NO! Of course not!" Is it the smithy or the forge who is responsible for war? No, because behind every scientific breakthrough is a politician willing to pay for it.
I'm all for people like the Ahmish who actually live in the manner your quote suggests, but to type on a computer, over the internet, under a lightbulb, on a chair made from oil based chemicals, while giving 'science' a one finger salute is the ultimate irony.