(June 17, 2011 at 4:12 pm)FaithNoMore Wrote:(June 17, 2011 at 3:50 pm)Nick_A Wrote: It can only have one meaning. Unification is what they have in common. In this case it is the need for truth. The atheist is enchanted with the truth of analysis, the associative dualistic mind. The believer is attracted to the truth of the heart: objective quality.
They both become deluded in Plato's cave through imagination. But as a person becomes more inwardly free, the mind and heart, quantity and quality, become complimentary.
Einstein was one that understood this:
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
Albert Einstein, "Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium", 1941
See there is your problem. Unification means to unite, not common characteristics.
And here is what Einstein meant by religion
'Einstein Wrote:It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
Science and the essence of religion unite in objective "truth" outside of Plato's cave. Einstein is referring to the personal God concept which I agree is a cave concept thar Simone described so well.
