What is Religion? - (Part Three)
By Seeker
Following along from What is Religion? (Part Two) the Universe followed the ‘expanding as gravity slowed it’ process until about five billion years back at which point, for no reason we can discern, it began to accelerate the expansion. Because we have no explanation for why, once again, our math fails to predict what we see around us, we have ‘Dark Energy’ – a strange property of the universe that adjusts things so what we see matches what our theories tell us.
This has become dogma – anyone who tries to query it cannot get peer review because the ‘peers’ refuse to review it. This means they cannot get funding, they commonly lose their jobs, and the nay-sayers (who DO get peer review) get quoted as experts in fields they refuse to research because they ‘know the truth’ of things.
The problem is, and it can be seen in glaring starkness in the Anthropogenic Global Warming (lack of) debate, Science goes missing and what we get is Dogma and Belief masquerading as Truth.
Like Religion, which began as a codifying of Truth into stories that would pass through time, Science has fallen by the wayside as funding, vested interests and ‘authority’ get to determine what we get told. I imagine there were people with knowledge but not position who watched in horror as the Ancients Priests conned the populace into weird practices on the basis that such would lead them to life in Eternity.
It seems the practice of keeping knowledge ‘where it can be understood’ has led us yet again into the realms where wrong belief will allow people to see other beings as ‘alien’ and not simply as an alternative expression of the same life force of which they are formed.
So, again, what is Religion and from where did it come?
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