(August 7, 2016 at 5:04 am)EllHarris412 Wrote: Hi there, this is my first post here but I was wondering if any of you could offer some advice. I have a friend who lately tells me he has found christ, god etc after all of this time of knowing him, I thought he was a little bit more critical in his thinking but he has seemed to be absorbed all of a sudden. I have tried talking on both a critical level and sympathetic level as I hate to think of any of my friends to lose their heads in make believe. Here is a link to one his videos on youtube anyway. You'll probably find it as I did, uncomfortable, a tad bit awkward and feeding the fearful:
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He also believes science is a form of religion which again, is uncomfortable and without sounding patronising, makes him sound quite uneducated.
If any of you out there can offer him direct advice or even some critical comments via his youtube, that would be great. I know he reads them and I can only hope he steps off Noah's Ark after reading them.
Thanks a lot and I appreciate any advice that is given.
Elle
quick question how is science not a form of religion?
Here is a definition of religion provided by merrium webster:
an interest, a belief, or an activity that is very important to a person or group
So then with this definition in mind.. please explain how science does not fall into this "FORM" (his words) of Religion?
...Seems to me 'education' would have one consider all possibilities of a word or meaning, and not just automatically exclude all none typical points of understanding or reasoning given a word or subject matter.