http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/873aae7bf86c0110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html
I asked a friend to read this, and he told me that he feels it's a threat to Christianity. I've read through it, but I can't seem to figure out how the hell it is. Is there something I'm missing, here; something I didn't realize, from the article?
2007-12-27 14:46:41 · 14 answers · asked by [[Princess For The Day]] 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm not asking that you read the entire article. I don't know how to describe the technology in a simple way; hence the link.
2007-12-27 14:51:08 · update #1
No darling. It's simpler than that: It's the "prophet of garbage". Ugh. silly fundies.
2007-12-27 14:55:51 · answer #1 · answered by Princess Ninja 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That was a great article. I think that's a brilliant way to take care of the garbage problem and creat a clean energy source. But I'm with you I don't see how in this world or any other that this technology could be a threat to Christianity. He must have read something totally different than I did.
2007-12-27 23:16:26 · answer #2 · answered by ghostwolf 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some fundies think that any science is a threat to Christianity. Perhaps that's what your friend meant. Especially if he didn't understand it.
Perhaps he saw this line: "it works a little like the big bang," and thought, "Oh! Those godless atheists are at it again!"
I can't see any problem with it, myself. I sure hope they succeed in getting that to work well enough to use it widely. I also hope they can make it a lot safer than our most common energy plants now.
2007-12-27 22:53:32 · answer #3 · answered by kriosalysia 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Wow, a recycling contraption that threatens Christianity? It sure sounds innocent in the article. I am thinking your friend is either very, very Cult or very, very weak in his belief in the power and inevitability of God's Plan, eh?
Now some fringe folks want us to destroy the Earth and actually work for it because they feel the destruction of the Earth is a precursor to the Second Coming...but, hey, that's not how I ride.
2007-12-27 22:55:46 · answer #4 · answered by Amy R 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the problem is that whenever science comes up with a really good idea, one that can demonstrably change the world for the better (happens quite regularly), religious people 'fear' it because the inception has absolutely nothing to do with God and it just points people away from God (and rightly so)
2007-12-27 22:58:13 · answer #5 · answered by Sly Phi AM 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with your friend, read the Title to the section of that web-site: It's "Science" of course science is a threat to Christianity... it requires critical thinking, logic and reasonableness...
2007-12-27 22:55:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your friend thinks that, by reading this article, if man can harness the energy of light and magnetic resonance, then man could supercede God in the "I can create life" stakes.
2007-12-27 22:53:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is nothing I find offensive. I'm sure that someone thought that calling someone a prophet that is not about religion is "evil", but there is no problem in my view...
2007-12-27 22:51:06 · answer #8 · answered by Mark W 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some fundamentalists do not like comparing "ordinary people" to their "prophets". Your friend is pretty silly.
2007-12-27 22:51:10 · answer #9 · answered by Nature is the ultimate force 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Um, I'm a Christian, and I have no idea what your friend is going on about.
2007-12-27 22:56:41 · answer #10 · answered by Starr 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋