Brainwashing is what terrorists do from child to adult get over your childhood brainwashing and search for current fact and scientific evidence it won't hurt your faith it should inspire it!
2006-10-28 17:52:12 · 7 answers · asked by Johnny W 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I agree. If you with to worship, do so, but leave it in church and out of the rest of our lives.
2006-10-28 17:55:46 · answer #1 · answered by trouthunter 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Science and religion will one day be shown to fit together. One book that I read recently was "The Science of the Craft" by William H. Keith, and it delved into the marvels of quantum physics and how modern science dovetails well with modern Pagan thinking.
Understanding Science can truly help to understand faith, and the reverse is also true. The problem is when we take metaphor as the literal truth. A creation myth is simply a means to let us know that we came from somewhere, and that it wasn't by chance. Genesis doesn't give enough facts to adequately explain the details of creation, and, I believe, wasn't meant to. There are no equations to detail the movement of the planets, only the statement that they move. Taking it literally, we're back in the days when the Earth was the center of the Solar System, and that's been proven wrong.
Literalism and ancient texts don't often go well together. And when religion is taken as science, or vice versa, both suffer. One can inspire the other, but never replace it.
2006-10-28 18:03:13 · answer #2 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am attempting to do that exact thing. My reason for continuing to debate is simply because I do not appreciate that people are still attempting to prove or believe that their religious ideals are of more value than the Higher Power's idea of creating each of us equally and allowing us to define our society with our freewill.
I have faith in scientific facts and a Higher Power.
2006-10-28 18:04:52 · answer #3 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
True. I studied science incl. evolution etc at uni and no matter how far back you can go to explaining the origins of life, all the atoms and energy in the universe had to come from somewhere.
...unless we are all just starring in some higher being's dream after all ;)
2006-10-28 17:58:41 · answer #4 · answered by melandchrise 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bloody Wing said it best.
You should have a little of both religion and science in your life; both are useful and both are valuable, but one without the other just doesn't work as well.
2006-10-28 18:18:27 · answer #5 · answered by Lady of the Pink 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-Albert Einstein
2006-10-28 17:55:58 · answer #6 · answered by Bloody Wing 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We can.
and to your comment: agreed.
2006-10-28 17:58:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋