(November 24, 2015 at 7:46 am)Ashground Wrote: If a cult shouts down science every time it contradicts their texts, maybe they shouldn't benefit from science. If they became like the Amish that would be far less harmful. And less hypocritical than benefiting from scientific method while dismissing it as being inferior to their texts or what their priest says or their 'intuitive understanding of the universe'
Well even some individual families in the Amish community are hypocritical. I've seen Amish people on TV using cell phones. When progress is so far ahead of you and you still cling to old crap, it becomes really hard to maintain. But really the Amish are not a threat because of size. If they were the size of Islam or Catholics or Conservative Baptists, I am sure they would not be so meek.
Again, we are using labels as an example here, but really what is going on is human behavior. Groups don't act out when left alone for the most part. No different than any other species.
It is also why I don't give Buddhists a pass. The west has a delusional love affair with the religions of the Orient and Asia. But the truth of our ENTIRE species worldwide, in it's ENTIRE history, is that we have never been violence free. There has never been a religion that has been a cure for all groups all at the same time. So again, while you cannot force religion out of existence, when we view ideas and claims from any given religion, we fail to consider enough that humans are the result of empathy or cruelty, and not the club itself. So when you view a label as peaceful, or more peaceful, that is a geographical time frame issue.
