RE: The inherent sleaze of apologetics
January 18, 2011 at 1:25 am
(This post was last modified: January 18, 2011 at 1:26 am by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
It is distressing, to say the least and dangerous.
What apoligetics do is up the con. It's a modernization of the stereotypical guy-on-soapbox preaching about the ins and outs of life and existance to attract a flock to a particular faith by masking willing ignorance under a scientific vineer to make their claims appear to have scientific backing to help neutralize the threat of modern science.
Since modern science is the pursuit of truth, it is naturally antitheical to faith-based initiatives, so by cleverly rearranging the scientific details just enough to seem legitimate to the layman, you can get away from looking bat-shit insane.
Given what 'science' there is in the bible to those who critically read it and the lack of people actually reading it without already deciding that the whole thing is absolutely and unequivically true, there is still a perponderance of people who believe in things that are quite rather against the findings in nature (like young-earth creationism).
More dangerous than simply the ignorance, Apoligetics continue a brand of faith that not only continues outright untruths about reality but purposefully obfuscates the knowledge that has been hard-earned over centuries of dedicated research and review.
They are not only bad for society at large, but they are actively undermining modern civilization and standing against the march of humanity's progress into a better and more civilized future.
What apoligetics do is up the con. It's a modernization of the stereotypical guy-on-soapbox preaching about the ins and outs of life and existance to attract a flock to a particular faith by masking willing ignorance under a scientific vineer to make their claims appear to have scientific backing to help neutralize the threat of modern science.
Since modern science is the pursuit of truth, it is naturally antitheical to faith-based initiatives, so by cleverly rearranging the scientific details just enough to seem legitimate to the layman, you can get away from looking bat-shit insane.
Given what 'science' there is in the bible to those who critically read it and the lack of people actually reading it without already deciding that the whole thing is absolutely and unequivically true, there is still a perponderance of people who believe in things that are quite rather against the findings in nature (like young-earth creationism).
More dangerous than simply the ignorance, Apoligetics continue a brand of faith that not only continues outright untruths about reality but purposefully obfuscates the knowledge that has been hard-earned over centuries of dedicated research and review.
They are not only bad for society at large, but they are actively undermining modern civilization and standing against the march of humanity's progress into a better and more civilized future.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
