Science is about to study, discover, make hypotheses and confirm or reject them through repeated experiments. Faith is about to believe in an hypothesis without confirm or reject it. There is no benefit in ignorance.
I am deeply committed to science and all the amazing benefits, and intellectual beauty, it confers. I am simultaneously a deeply spiritual (but 100% non-religious!) person. The two are not mutually exclusive, in fact I'd argue they go hand in hand.
See, my aim is to know what it is real and what it is not. Despite the uncountable books, tv programs and websites, no one on this planet can verify the existence of the supernatural, so why do I bother searching for something unreal? I prefer to spend my time searching for something useful.
Ross Douthat. Apologist for the Republican Party and Catholic Church. His bothersiderism is breathtaking.
“Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other animals..." Christopher Hitchens.
This argument is always the same: "Human science hasn't explained everything, therefore some highly specific, anthropocentric, and just coincidentally patriarchal/authoritarian model must be the real truth instead". Baah! The simple truth is we have no idea what lies beyond our experience, period.
First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics attest to Eternal Life. Understanding of Humans as part Divine, part Animal along w Laws of Logic and Common Sense suggest a Supreme Being.😯🤔
Look, if you want to believe in mystical magical space beings based on 5000-year old myths, that's fine. But please, keep it to yourself. The rest of us are living in reality.
This is an indication that the "faith" dealers are scared. They try to make one's understanding of fact-based logic yet another reason why one should embrace their particular brand of belief in the incredible and unprovable.
Their position can't stand on its own against critical scrutiny. It never could. But they hope to latch onto something that is on the rise to give them a faint whiff of credibility.
Atheism is as much a belief as religion is. It is also harmful because it is a conviction that will keep mankind from full self realisation, just like religion will for most people. Agnosticism is het only way to ascendance. Within agnosticism there is infinite freedom to define that way.
You should be a spiritual seeker. Religion is often a calcified set of rules that has nothing to do with being spiritual. It is a form of collective ego and righteousness that is ignoring actual good for holding on to taught beliefs without seeing or awareness. Religion is not the answer.
Not to be said you can find many answers in religious writings and teachings, but those are never clear and defined, but often paradoxical. From the Tao Te Ching: The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not the eternal Name. The unnamable is the eternally real.
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An ridiculously simplified and condensed version of my spirituality is this:
All that exists in this universe when combined = the singularity/god/whatever you want to call it.
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL.
RELIGION KILLS
You SHOULD be able to choose what you believe and IF you believe without anyone else's opinion.
Cool if you do.
Cool if you don't
“Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other animals..." Christopher Hitchens.
IE; He's not clear on the fucking concept of faith.
it's kind of the nature of belief
and science for that matter
because science is often ambiguous
and insisting it's always definitive is a kind of belief itself
It's both predictable and pitiful.