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Crows are pretty damn smart
Numsgil:
Personally I take a more humanist view towards religion. It's about spirituality. It's about magical thinking. It's about a mythos, and being part of a community, and knowing who you are and what you want, and your place in the world. That's the reason religions are so universal across all cultures and human experience. And that's why the vast majority of them are so similar to each other. It's as much apart of what it means to be human as storytelling an family and big feasts during holidays. To not have something you're willing to believe in (whether God or whatever) is pathological.
It's not about what did or did not happen, or will or will not happen. That's the realm of science. The two are orthogonal. Science, for the most part, doesn't trespass in the realm of faith, and faith doesn't trespass, for the most part, in the realm of science. It's when either forgets its place that things get nasty.
ikke:
Cult vs religion is trivial. The only difference is the number of followers.
Science, in the end, asks and answers the how of things. The law of gravity answers how the apple falls to the earth, not why. Neither does m theory. Some peole find comfort in answering the why question with god, others don't feel the need. When beliefs turn to religion things get nasty. The contribution of religion to civilsation is perfectly summed up by quoting a french bisshop: Kill them all, God will recognise his own. Religion claims absolute truth, and by extension absolute power. People are not nice when things get absolute..
Numsgil:
--- Quote from: ikke ---Religion claims absolute truth, and by extension absolute power. People are not nice when things get absolute..
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That's something of a straw man fallacy. There are religions like that, but they're not all like that. It's like you see something's shadow and think you know all about what casts it. There are religions that cast no shadow.
bacillus:
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What extremes?
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Any you care to define. Everything is relative.
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Im pretty sure that when God created the universe there was one hell of a Bang.
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Kind of like an LHC experiment gone wrong?
ikke:
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--- Quote from: ikke ---Religion claims absolute truth, and by extension absolute power. People are not nice when things get absolute..
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That's something of a straw man fallacy. There are religions like that, but they're not all like that. It's like you see something's shadow and think you know all about what casts it. There are religions that cast no shadow.
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Name on religion that claims no absolute truths...
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