When it's clear that religion can't evolve, it's forever stuck in the past. You would never try and revise the bible, like Genesis Part 2. Which is the problem here. Those we are believing in the bible are seeing the world the same way as those who lived 2,000 years ago. From the knowledge we have gained about the mysteries of the universe from science, which is always evolving and self-correcting. We are learning more about who we really are and where we are and even why. Unless religion can begin to embrace the discoveries made from science, it will never evolve and could doom our species to arrogance and extinction.
2006-12-30 12:25:04 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
...and can we ever think for ourselves?
2006-12-30 12:28:04 · update #1
Better to embrace knowledge than ignorance.
2006-12-30 12:30:02 · update #2
NO, our species is holding us back from Our Father.
2006-12-30 12:27:21 · answer #1 · answered by rezany 5 · 2⤊ 6⤋
hello skunkgrease,
In my opinion, religion, all religions seem to have joined big business. Not a good thing.
But the message in The Bible is as true now as it was 2000 years ago. And will remain so another 2000 years and beyond.
Nothing that science has brought about clashes with the teachings in The Bible. Why is it then that The Bible is the best seller of all time? People want and need the message, now more than ever. People are destroying themselves and our Earth. Science is proving that. And The Bible speaks to this.
Religion isn't holding our species back, it's the only thing protecting us, holding us together. 85% of Americans are Christians in many faiths, religions. What does this tell you?
People, not religion.. or faith, could doom our species.
Have you even read The Bible? It's a real page turner! And a eye opener and heart opener. Give it a try. Don't discount the messages within it.
Thank you for reading my opinion.
2006-12-30 13:08:30 · answer #2 · answered by Sandra Dee 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a little confused? Organized religion has been documented back almost 6000 years and yet according to yourself, we have not progressed as a species in all that time because of religion. Have you no idea how silly you sound? As you get older and hopefully acquire some higher learning you will be able to make an argumentative statement that is not fraught with fallacies.
Who would you like to go herd goats? There are many more people in this country that believe in some type of guiding being or power in the universe than those who believe that they are no more that a rock or a tree.
I ask a self proclaimed atheist many years ago if he could prove to me that there was no God. Of course he couldn't. I then ask him why he "knew" there was no God if he couldn't prove it? He told me that he didn't believe because nobody could prove that there was one. After he thought about his two statements he realized that his logic was flawed. He ended up admitting that he wasn't really an atheist after all but an agnostic. I never heard him bad mouth anothers beliefs after that. I had a lot of respect for him for seeing the fallacy in his belief and correcting it. It's a shame that the people that are hammering others beliefs through their secret identities cannot see just how foolish they do sound to somebody that can actually think on their own.
Peace
2006-12-30 12:40:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes it's holding our species back and the more we bend over backwards to placate other's religious beliefs the more we stoke the fires to our own destruction. People blindly assume that religion continues to serve some beneficial purpose to humanity despite the fact that statistics tell another story. The most religiously pious nations in the world are uniquely beleaguered with high homicide, STD, and infant mortality rates. Conversely, non-religious countries such as Norway, Sweden, and Denmark have much higher human development statistics. The supposed charity work that religious people conduct is done with an ulterior motive. The Vatican is steadily going into AIDS ridden Africa preaching about the evils of condoms while telling them Jesus is the only way to Heaven. If dooming these people to die by not using condoms weren't enough, they are busy enlisting soldiers for Christ in African nations that are in the midst of religious wars between Islam and Christianity. By continuously embracing religion as our source of morality and ethics we are abandoning reason and intellectualism. The fact that evolution is not taught in all public schools should be alarming to every individual in this country. Evolution is more than just a theory, it's a fact, but the voices or religious dogma would have you believe otherwise. This country is so blinded, we're on the path to destruction. Individual religions themselves do not evolve. Their vary nature demands that they don't, it would run counter to their very existence.
2006-12-30 14:27:09 · answer #4 · answered by dcurtis536 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes.
Religion and Science must both accept that the Universe is a species.
I read the following at God Trek, The book of IT
People of Earth:
It is time to divide the word of God from the word of man.
For the child born of this union is confusion; and in this way shall you divide it.
As that which you call God made the whole of creation-
Anything which pertains to the whole of creation is truly the word of God.
Anything which pertains to but one race, religion, person, nation, notion, or tract of land on this world is only the word of man.
2006-12-30 12:43:06 · answer #5 · answered by Caraleigh 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is more than one perspective on this. Some think what you think is progress they think cloud the true issues. One thing is for sure there are definate draw backs to our current path. People have to lock there doors where they never did b4. I see two problems. One is people have strayed from the whole truth in scripture where accountability is called for. The other is that with all our knowledge and written history we still think it is OK for peoples accumulation to be unlimited. When people make more money than they can use to become comfirtable then they use it to gain power over other people. This is in direct opposition to what scripture declars is good conduct. So in short my view of the problem is pretty much the opposite of yours. When we stray too far from the basics it obscures our view of the truth. Scripture explains the truth. Read it you will see for yourself.
It is thoise behaviors described in scripture as bad which hold our species back.
2006-12-30 12:37:51 · answer #6 · answered by ronnysox60 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Religion often counters science until those of that faith can manage to mold their holy book to include the new discoveries...On the other hand, it seems most charities are religiously based...For some reason, many people do not know how to be "good" to each other without knowing the reward...
I suppose religion is a tool, or a weapon in the wrong hands...Great question!
2006-12-30 12:29:02 · answer #7 · answered by Eleventy 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
What makes you think that religion doesn't embrace the discoveries of science?
My religion, Roman Catholicism, has been a prime sponsor and patron of science and learning over the centuries.
In fact, science would not have come as far as it has, without the support and sponsorship that the Church has provided it all these years.
Religion is not "forever stuck in the past." Concepts like "thou shalt not kill" and "love your neighbor as yourself" cannot possibly be "stuck in the past" because they're timeless. And they come to us from religion.
It's no coincidence that societies which officially outlawed and abandoned religion -- mostly communist states -- have the bloodiest track record of atrocities in human history.
To me, that's the biggest example of "arrogance" that our "species" could possibly exhibit -- to abandon faith in God and basically make "gods" of ourselves and of the State.
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2006-12-30 12:34:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No religion is not holding us back, except from the corruption of sin and the immoral lusts of men.
There is no new knowledge that religion can not be used as a guideline for.
It is just man wanting to live in lust and sin that perfers thier wisdon, not some basic truth.
2006-12-30 13:40:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
we are an arrogant species and we will become extinct.
humans have an awful doublevisioned look at the world. religion too. how long, for religion, will we accept any religion of peace that says any war is righteous. how long will we listen to all men are brothers, as we are praised for going out and killing those brothers.
we don't deserve to survive, and nature may be setting the stage to our extinction. global warming could do just that
2006-12-30 12:31:22 · answer #10 · answered by free thinker 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
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2016-12-01 08:39:00 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋