What is Religion? - (Part One)
By Seeker
What is going on? Science leads us in strange directions where the basics of Science are being changed to reflect new and strange realities. Millions of people have hung their hats on the reliability and repeatability of Science, yet now it seems the basics of Science are moving towards an unreal reality.
Go to a Science website and ask some basic questions about Reality as expressed by Science – try not to enter your own views in it, particularly if you come from a religious background. Ask in earnesty and you will get earnest replies.
Go to a Religious site and ask the same questions – you may need to rephrase them so as not to trigger the ‘this is a heathen’ reactions, and note if you do this in reverse, you need to change the phrasing with the Science community to avoid the ‘this is a believer’ reactions – and watch the answers that flow.
In both cases you get answers based in Belief.
With the religious sites, you are required to accept their answers (and reject all others) because ‘God says it’ or ‘God wrote it’ or ‘the ancients tell us’ if you so much as query ‘Truth’ as they see it.
With Science sites, you are required to accept their answers (and reject all others) because ‘they have peer review’ or ‘an authority says so’ or ‘we’ve known it since Einstein’ if you so much as query ‘Truth’ as they see it.
In both cases, what you are seeing is Belief – as quoted to me by a Pastor when I was ten years old… ‘the substance of things not seen, the evidence of things hoped for’ …in other words, imagination and fantasy.
September 9th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
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