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It appears religion wants to have its "worldviews" on many subjects: origin of life, evolution, human society moral standards, origin of universe, gay rights ... but how does religion acquired its answers? Religion always know? God handed it down? What?
Religion makes a great social science. Anthropologists and Sociologists love to analyze and compare religions even down to the Cheerio's left under the pews after services. And it's a good thing too, otherwise where would college students get their upper division filler classes?
But religion cannot supplant hard science because hard science has become a defacto religion in it's own right. Both seek to answer the "what am I" questions but both essentially come from the same source, the human mind. A flawed source....
...So logically only aliens can show us the true path. Sadly, they came and went with the Hale bopp comet, and after scooping up their chosen people, sped away into the vastness of space. Sorry to everyone who didn't get the memo.
It appears religion wants to have its "worldviews" on many subjects: origin of life, evolution, human society moral standards, origin of universe, gay rights ... but how does religion acquired its answers? Religion always know? God handed it down? What?
No religion is always right and they all think the other is wrong. Heck, just look at one type of religion, Christianity for example, and how many different branches of it there are that have different beliefs, all damning one another to hell. Anyone with any common sense can see its crap, as is their decision making process on all current and relevantly new topics.
The bible has no answer for things like homosexuality or masturbation without wildly contradicting everything else it stands for. So if you tell me its wrong to be gay do we also have to stone our neighbor for cutting his grass on a sunday? How about how much slaves are worth or if I kill them, does it matter if it was with a tire rod or a baseball bat? What about animal and human sacrifice procedures? Since the bible, and all other religious books for that matter, fail to answer modern problems, they usually get their answers from whatever they see as the "head" of their church, weather that be their pastor, the pope, or some wildly intangible moron like Bill O'reilly.
In essence, no one actually gets their answers from a real divine being but just goes off of old books with hand picked sections from a few dudes who decided how people should behave literally centuries, or in the case of the bible, thousands of years ago. And to think some people think talking to Ouiji boards is stupid. That or they trust what other men tell them is right and wrong. So essentially, an old book or they listen to what others tell them because they don't want to think for themselves.
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