Will religion destroy education or will education destroy religion?

Question

They both seem to have a corrosive effect on each other.

But which will ultimately triumph?

Does seem to point to education heading in the direction of victory.....albeit slowly?

Answer 1

Neither. There can be no education without religion, there can be no religion without education.

This is simple logic.

For a choice to exist multiple options must exist. Without options there are no choices.

Take any set of choices.

You can make one choice or you can make another choice or you can decide not to choose.

Once the options exist they cannot be eliminated. A time frame for a particular choice may lapse, but, the option will continue to exist even if it is no longer viable.

Of course, you could always attempt to destroy all other choices the way control freaks always have. This always fails, but, control freaks always attempt to destroy choices and always fail in the end.

PS: Religion always teaches God is the center of everything, not the Earth. Don't you wish people would educate themselves before they discuss a topic.

Galileo taught that the sun was the center, and we now know that is false. Terra sits in one of the arms of the Milky Way, a medium sized spiral galaxy in a very large Universe that science cannot define the center of.

Answer 2

Without a doubt there are religions, including some calling themselves Christian, that would like to destroy education as it would make their lives easier with no one knowing enough to question them.

True Christians of the Bible value education quite highly. How else can we, as 1Thess. 5:21 says, "Make sure of all things. Hold fast to what is fine."

We want to be as the Beroeans were in Acts 17:11 even with apostles talking to them they "with greatest eagerness of mind, they searched the scriptures tofind out if these things were so." Test and verify.

Answer 3

I hope that education triumphs in this battle. Religion is divisive and misleading, as in, it tells people not to trust science. But how many people trust science when they get sick and must use that science to get well?

And I have to say, john_d_ayer is a scary person! There is indeed education without religion. Why do people feel they must be intertwined?

Answer 4

You're wrong about Mormons. The sunday school teacher at my ward is a woman. Women can teach in the church but they don't hold the priesthood, which is the authority to act in God's name. So women can't perform baptisms or pass the bread and water, but they are able to teach. They're not able to decide what doctrines the church will teach, that's also decided by the priesthood leadership. So I guess they're able to teach what the men tell them to teach, but I think they're able to put their own interpretation into it. Women do contribute to the LDS church quite a bit. If you ever went to a Mormon church you would see that.

Answer 5

Education will destroy religion. I only hope it is in time. The religious clock is ticking and this world is a weary place .

Answer 6

Islam will destroy humanity. My money is on the Mullah's. History is repleat with examples of greater civilizations being brought down by barbarians, and if anything, todays paradigm seems even more hopless.

Answer 7

Given the chance religion will destroy us all. That's why it is my goal to do everything I can to see that education is victorious. Education will ultimately triumph.

Answer 8

Education will win in the end.


Even in a worst case scenario, theists will only manage to take over *some* schools and harm *some* kids with their creationism claptrap. In the end, those schools will fade away from intellectual relevance, and all serious students will go elsewhere.

This is why places like Bob Jones "University" are such a joke.


No matter how many politicians the creationists win over, they can't keep opposing facts forever. They are already losing their stranglehold--religion is *far* less popular today than it was 100 years ago.

Answer 9

most religons actually stress on learning and gainnig knowledge and education....one should learn both...then see if the education helped u believe in god more or the opposite...that's ur choice at th end

Answer 10

They seem to coexist quite well in the UK actually. Then again we have less of the more fundamentalist people in the mainstream here. Education and fundamentalism of any kind never works very well.