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I'm very concerned about what Fundamentalists are trying to do in this country. Religion has become incredibly interwoven into politics, and I find it disturbing. Of course, that a whole new thread.
Aha!!! This tells me you have awareness and are capable of thought.
Of course everything has a cause -- but nothing is like religion explained.
Religion knows nothing about universe. In the old times, people knew very little about things around them, religion explained a lot things (often wrongly), and took the opportunity to control the followers. Nowadays, no one listen to what religion has to say about the universe.
(plus, religion does not have much to say about the universe: "my God made the universe")
Nowadays, no one listen to what religion has to say about the universe.
(plus, religion does not have much to say about the universe: "my God made the universe")
I wish this was true. Have you heard of the Creative Museum in Petersburg, KY? Or The Creation and Earth History Museum in Santee, CA? There are many others as well. There are, I'm afraid, a lot of people who listen to what religion has to say about the universe.
I don't know about other faiths though. Does anyone know about that? Do other faiths try to disprove science like Fundamentalist Christians do? Would be interesting to know more about that.
I wish this was true. Have you heard of the Creative Museum in Petersburg, KY? Or The Creation and Earth History Museum in Santee, CA? There are many others as well. There are, I'm afraid, a lot of people who listen to what religion has to say about the universe.
I don't know about other faiths though. Does anyone know about that? Do other faiths try to disprove science like Fundamentalist Christians do? Would be interesting to know more about that.
I know it -- they also want to teach "creation" to children in science class as a "competing science".
I know. Many of the homeschooled children that my husband and I know are being taught creation science and no other. They are expected to go to seminary or a Christian liberal arts college. None are expected to become scientists, doctors, or engineers even though they are very bright kids. They would answer that God created the universe. No other explanation is plausible to them.
If there is no purpose why "do our best"? What is "our best"?
You’re right, there’s no need to debate simply think it through by answering a few simple questions.
Good question. Some would say - do good for goodness' sake.
I think that the suffering we're aware of is what demands an answer about where we came from and where we are going and why we are here. If we were not sentient beings - then of course such things would not matter.
I think that at least some of us can "be good for goodness' sake", without a reward at the end of life. The latter cheapens the 'being good', IMO. Must we be bribed?
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