Supreme Court Same Sex Marriage Argumet

[TheRocketSurgeon]

I had to think about how to reply to this post because one I did not wish to write a term paper on the subject (which is enormous) and two, currently I do not have the drive to  go back and forth over the issue because its a lot of history and I am just lazy.

Well that is your first fault in your assumed statement is bunching all of Christianity together. Seconded not acknowledge the separation of Catholics and Protestants religions. Once done the assumed idea of “war of oppression between religion and science”  is a very false statement because it never occurred  in the Catholic Church and in the early Protestant Churches of Lutheran and Anglican of the mid 1500 to 1600’s. It will surprise not only you but many that the Catholic Church was not only pioneer science in western civilization from 1100’s to today but were also the discovery/founders of many things that we still use today.

Now how to start this were it would address all possible questions that you may still have, yet that cannot be done, So back and forth we will have to go. What to put first? Do I give you the long list of Catholic Priest who were scientist and the first in discoveries in numerous scientific fields? Do I tell you all of the educational and social institutions and changes that the church had done that built Europe and the America’s in what it is today? (i.e. Universities, Hospitals, Calendar, Genetics, The Big Bang Theory, The Double Helix, Arabic Numbers, Fallopian Tube , Heliocentric Model, Modern Law, International Law/court, and so on)

Okay, we won't bunch all Christians together if you'll promise never to compare us to communist assholes.

We're well-aware that many Christians are scientists, today, and that they do cutting edge work in a lot of fields, as you mentioned. We have *zero issues* with those guys, other than disagreeing with their conclusions about supernatural concepts beyond the detection abilities of the sciences.

Yet you cannot deny that a huge percent of the Christian effort, especially in the United States (and this is relevant because the USA has historically been a great leader in science and industry, over the past century), has been to attack science, to spread misinformation about it, and to generally hamper the young minds who might discover that evolution is real and their churches are lying to us about how the world came to be. We know damned well that science and atheism have nothing to do with one another, other than the fact that atheists have no preset reason to take issue with or deny scientific findings.

As I often point out on here, I am an atheist and ex-biologist; my fiancee is a Christian (Methodist) and remains a geneticist/biochemist.