Why do religious people hate future generations?

Question

Don't you realize that when you impede scientists from doing research, you are delaying progress? Those who came before me could have been more supportive of the great scientists of their age, and had they done so, the world today would surely be far more advanced, both technologically and socially. And it makes me sad to see those religious stumbling blocks still in place. Every day that science is banned from doing stem cell research is another day that people have to wait for relief from their ailments.

If you want to continue living in the Dark Ages, that's fine. By all means do it. But please, I beg you, don't force me to live there with you!

Answer 1

Growth. Truth. Change. Reason. Acceptance. Tolorance. Progression. Satan.

What do all of the above words have in common?

They are enemies of the church.

With the future generations lie the opportunity to grow and expand from these shallow ways of thinking. And with growth comes change, and acceptance, and reasoning, and tolorance, and progression for all of mankind.

I also believe that the future generation will finally look under their beds at night and realize that the boogeyman (and satan) do not exist- and are just figments of imagination used to ensure that we all act like nice little sheep.

Answer 2

*sighs* Ok, I'm gonna go through this one more time, so I suggest you actually read this.

We are not against three of the four kinds of stem cell research. Science is the one that is hung up on only one answer and won't move on. People like you who think that there is only one way and ignore the other paths.

1. Imbilical cord stem cell research
2. Adult stem cell research (which, I read, is actually helping people with diabetes)
3. Stem cells taken from the fluid around the baby (I forgot the name)

None of these result in the death of a potential child. You don't start a life and then harvest the cells and toss the clumps away. All three have research behind them that either proves or suggest that they can surpass the fetus stem cell research. The "religious" people that you targeted would be more then happy to support those three kinds, so there is no way we're impedding science.

Also, did you know that the clumps that you deem not-human can become a child? I've read several articals from families who adopted the "medical waste" in hopes of having a child and do have a child now. So, basically, your thowing away a life.

Science is about preserving life, but to kill in order to do is stupid. If there are better ways that save lives, why focus soully on the one way that takes life away?

Besides, a private company can still do stem cell research. It's just not governmently funded. So again, your agrument doesn't hold.

Answer 3

First off the word religion is a word that people dedicated to use to put people beliefs, and what they believe in into groups. Believers don't hate future generations, and they aren't trying to stop scientists from doing research they see nothing wrong about that at all. There are people out there who lives in a lie by saying that it's because of scientists why there are trees, oceans, animals, the sun, the moon etc, just like there are parents that keeps on lying to their kids by saying that clothes makes the person, and how you dress and how you look determines who you are witch that statement is a lie because only personality makes the person and determines who they are. Believers wants to give future generations bright futures and wants them to be strong people. I'm a Christian and I don't hate science but it's when people puts science first and God second in their life and than tries to force others to make that same choice that they made or if they don't than they treat those people like trash, by bullying them by going to christian sites and leaves insulting comments about God on those sites, and than harasses Christians for saying how much they love God, so what I'm trying to say is when people makes other people pick between God or science to love that when I get mad.

Answer 4

What makes you think that science is or was impeded by religion? Maybe some religions...but to classify all is very unscientific of you.

For starters, the Catholic Church was a pioneer of science in the middle ages:

1) Certain Catholic theological ideas lent themselves to the development of science; and 2) Catholic priests, particularly the Jesuits, were unknown pioneers in science. How many people know 35 craters on the moon are names for Jesuit scientists? Or that the Jesuits brought Western science to India, China, etc.? Or that the first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a freely-falling body was a Jesuit? And so on.

http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/history/world/wh0101.html

The Catholic Church started the first universities and taught...science, among other things. They were pioneers for education and advancement.

So, do you have data to back up your claim or could you be just "assuming" your statement to be true, based on bias views and unfounded beliefs about religion?

Here is a little more:
Just one little-known fact: Catholic cathedrals in Bologna, Florence, Paris, and Rome were constructed to function as solar observatories. No more precise instruments for observing the sun’s apparent motion could be found anywhere in the world. When Johannes Kepler posited that planetary orbits were elliptical rather than circular, Catholic astronomer Giovanni Cassini verified Kepler’s position through observations he made in the Basilica of San Petronio in the heart of the Papal States. Cassini, incidentally, was a student of Fr. Riccioli and Fr. Francesco Grimaldi, the great astronomer who also discovered the diffraction of light, and even gave the phenomenon its name.

http://www.catholic.org/national/national_story.php?id=18540

Answer 5

Anybody who denies the benefits of all the scientific progress we've been able to make should live the life of the Amish and give up any technological advances that have been made since the days of Jesus Christ.

Answer 6

definite. a million. atheists do not bypass around saying "my perception is purer than yours" or "my god is better than yours". in short, they don't discriminate between religions, while each and every faith discriminates different than Buddhism, according to risk. 2. all human beings isn't born atheist. all of us have a spiritual upbringing and we choose for to not have self belief in it through failings we see. 3. atheist have a a procedures better experience of social accountability and humanity. an excellent sort of the religions coach that persons could save on with particular rules to pass into heaven which will fulfill all their needs. that's fairly materialistic. those religions place self earlier society. egocentric. while,. atheists tend to be extra sort and effectual in direction of the damaging and needy. there are a number of extra, yet those shall suffice :)

Answer 7

They prefer their imaginary friend to real people.

That's really all there is to it.

The irony though is those people actually have some allies amounts a subset of atheists that seem to have not fully given up religious thinking and are instead worshipping nature instead of God (and nature can be pretty bad, though at least nature isn't immoral, just amoral).

Answer 8

Bull$#!%, and I'll tell you why.
Science without moral restraint gets you Nazi and Japanese experimentation on slaves. It gets you nuclear weapons and chemical warfare. It gets you human beings bred to be organ donars. There has to be some line or all manner of horrors are permisible.

Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you SHOULD. Otherwise we live by "might makes right" and "survival of the fittest".

Answer 9

When all religious book take a u-turn when compared with science, The Quran(islamic Holy book) and Modern science
they go along with each other like twin sisters.

Islam incurages to do research, muslims had many scientists who are still known for their discoveries, inventions, development.

for details please check the link below

Answer 10

I've been saying this exact thing for a long time. Those dark, damp caves don't appeal to me ar all. Without science, I wouldn't be banging on this computer, I'd be out scrounging or some roots for dinner.