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Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 5:18 pm
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Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 5:25 pm
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Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 5:47 pm
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Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 10:19 pm
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GilAskan We still will believe in Gods, still worship at an alter. But the God, worshipping, and alter themselves will change. People say religion is blind faith, with no base in fact. But how is this different than science? There are probably only a few hundred people in the world with access to electron-microscopes with which we can examine atoms. The overwhelming majority of the world believes atoms to be real; it is on faith alone that we believe scientists are not lying. We are moving towards an age in which we worship logic and science, which are not essentially reason and fact. And then too are there the Gods we don't admit to worship. We ritually sacrifice time and money to the television, to the internet, to music and film.
Religion is faith, certainly, and whilst some theists may have blind-faith, I think "religion is blind faith" is slightly too much of a sweeping statement to make. If it was, St. Anselm would never have written his Proslogion, Aqunias would never have written Summa Theologica, and st. Augustine and St. Irenaeus wouldn't have bothered writing their theodicies.
A lot of people don't treat the internet/tv, etc with reverence - they pound the keyboard, scream at the computer and the TV and throw the remote control about when they can't get it to work - usually, they later realise that it was actually all their fault. The lack of reverence suggests it's not actually worship. Few people unquestioningly love a TV. Though I admit some do, I don't think the people who would actually qualify as worshiping TV, etc., are that great in number.
I don't think we will ever reach a point where everyone is a theist, or everyone is an atheist.
Science and religions aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 1:42 pm
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 2:13 pm
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 2:37 pm
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 5:44 pm
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Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 12:47 am
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GilAskan We still will believe in Gods, still worship at an alter. But the God, worshipping, and alter themselves will change. People say religion is blind faith, with no base in fact. But how is this different than science? There are probably only a few hundred people in the world with access to electron-microscopes with which we can examine atoms. The overwhelming majority of the world believes atoms to be real; it is on faith alone that we believe scientists are not lying. We are moving towards an age in which we worship logic and science, which are not essentially reason and fact. And then too are there the Gods we don't admit to worship. We ritually sacrifice time and money to the television, to the internet, to music and film.
And to beauty, to drink, to drug, to fiction, to art, to food, to clothing, to anything.
Everyone has a hobby, after all.
To this site even.
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Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 1:53 am
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