FlawedGenius wrote:I am always gobsmacked when I read about people "Finding God" or what have you. Those who are brainwashed as kids I have some sympathy for, but to get swept away by religion as an adult is worthy of nothing short of derision. Science is where these people should be finding their answers, not the bible.
No. Science exclusivelydoes breed rational thought. Your example is not one of exclusivity; it is of an attempted intertwining of religion and science. Nothing can be successfully intertwined with religion, because religion is nonsense.
FlawedGenius wrote:I am always gobsmacked when I read about people "Finding God" or what have you. Those who are brainwashed as kids I have some sympathy for, but to get swept away by religion as an adult is worthy of nothing short of derision. Science is where these people should be finding their answers, not the bible.
No. Science exclusivelydoes breed rational thought. Your example is not one of exclusivity; it is of an attempted intertwining of religion and science. Nothing can be successfully intertwined with religion, because religion is nonsense.
Religion can breed rational thought. Many of the vignettes in religious texts appear nonsense if you read them literally, so what's wrong with reading them as allegories? I see many as codes that people depressed/in search of direction can decode in their own way, take their own meaning from. Depending solely on science for all the answers you seek in life can leave you with such a heavy sense of pathos it's just depressing. For example, walking around with a mind conditioned to be unafraid of death, you'd be more likely to be happy, than if you were walking around with the knowledge of the cancer/disease you're likely to die from.
