Quote:
Originally Posted by Tarheeler
People will always find a way to have faith, and that's not a bad thing. I've met people who will renounce anything scientific if it remotely challenges their faith. I've also met people who have blended science into their religion, using it fill the voids. Then there's people who grasp onto science and use it as a religion.
Religion is subjective, and cannot be proven with "evidence" ( I really like Kierkegaard's writings on this subject; thru faith existence is evident), and science is proven only until the next breakthru comes along and proves something else.
A lot of people need something higher to hold on to; that guiding light that gives meaning to life. If that belief focuses them and puts the world in order for them, that's a good thing.
|
Well put.
I went through a fierce atheist phase for a couple of years. I looked at all the bad things that religion was responsible for. It made me quite bitter. Then I watched a documentary about these fairly radical atheists and saw myself. I had become the venomous, hate filled vindictive person I was accusing religious people of being. Not all atheists are that bad, but I was looking for vengeance for a religion that had given me nothing. After I watched this documentary I changed to what I am now, a agnostic. Here I am happy until I get proof either way.
If there is a God and he/she/it/they are so good, then I feel certain my questioning their existence is not going to condemn me to eternal hell fire.
Religion, and really atheism and agnosticism are in a way included in that shpere is only bad if people use it for bad.
Which leads to the
real problem. People doing what other
people say.
__________________
Manu Chao - Bongo Bong
"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious." - Oscar Wilde
"Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise." - Sir Francis Bacon
Quote:
Originally Posted by votetheoneyouhatetheleast
I'm an independent for one thing not a liberal. Just because I think Bush is an incompetent leader doesn't make me liberal, doesn't even exclude me from being republican, I choose to weigh up his actions and determine my own opinion, over blind party loyalty.
|