Costrin
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Wow after reading 10 or so pages, I only have one question, why are we arguing religion?
Because.
The question I post to you: why not?
Wow after reading 10 or so pages, I only have one question, why are we arguing religion?
The fact that we can't currently explain something scientifically doesn't mean that it's miraculous. It just means that we can't currently explain it. A lot of people seem so uncomfortable with the idea of uncertainty, but I think it's dangerous to take the vast scope of things we don't understand and lump them all under the "religion, not science" umbrella. Our understanding of the world is constantly changing. A few thousand years ago, people had a complex system of beliefs to explain things like the rising of the sun (Apollo in his chariot, for example) that we now understand on a scientific level. Personally, I'm okay with admitting that there are things that we can't understand or even comprehend, but that doesn't mean I think we should say that it must be God at work and stop trying.
Because.
The question I post to you: why not?
What makes you think that God created you for a purpose that suits your likings or anything that you can understand?
Maybe God created the ethereal form of man, but what we understand for man to be could be an arbitrary product of nature. God is unfathomable so we can never know what he created us for. This has nothing to do with the kind of a God that the ignorant Biblical literalists believe in.
I'll say this again... I believe religion gives us meaning to life. That we like living with a purpose. It doesn't directly affect the way you act, rather it affects your attitude... and from altering your attitude change your approach to life and indirectly affects your interactions with other people.
Obviously in past centuries it was a form of mind control and personality cults. Myths and legends to explain our Earth and the Universe and why we were here and to be good people or we shall rot in hell or be reborn as amoebas... but now in the year 2007, why is religion still relevant?
If religion is a way of seeing, what do we see when we look through Christianity
or Buddhism
Because science doesn't give the same reassurances that many people still crave so much.
Science doesn't tell a grieving father that his little girl is still alive but in spirit and waiting for him to join her in some happy paradise. Science doesn't tell someone dying, that they shouldn't be scared, there is still something more and this isn't the end.
In science you are simply dead, and not everyone can be comfortable with that knowledge.
I mean I don't believe in religion, and life after death, but I wish I still did, it was a very comforting blanket when I did.