RE: Considering atheism [Currently Christian]
July 9, 2017 at 9:06 am
(This post was last modified: July 9, 2017 at 9:23 am by Whateverist.)
(July 9, 2017 at 5:45 am)downbeatplumb Wrote:(July 8, 2017 at 7:07 pm)Lek Wrote: I totally accept science as a method of discovering truth, but it can only test things that fall under natural law. As such, it's not equipped to make judgments on anything supernatural. Science also doesn't answer many of the "whys" that humanity considers. Science is great, but if you rely only on science for all your answers, you're living in a box. Any thing that doesn't fit into the natural criteria is not considered. Anyway, as far as examining the compatibility of science and faith, the website below is excellent and you ought to check it out.
http://biologos.org/about-us/
Science works great on real things, the supernatural is not a real thing. None of it.
Put another way "real" and "natural" are synonyms. A synonym for "supernatural" would be the "alternative real".
(July 8, 2017 at 5:01 pm)Khemikal Wrote:(July 8, 2017 at 3:58 pm)*Deidre* Wrote: I just realized who you are lol looking at your name change.
And yes, probably. I will say that I envy people who grew up without any religious parenting or guidance whatsoever because what we are taught as kids no matter how hard we try, there's always a slight residue left over. (when it comes to the negative stuff)
Oh, my mom is a -complete- wooster...crystal healing and pagan gods, reads the cards..the whole bit. She burns twigs to purge ghosts, lol. My family is a mix of catholics, baptists, and literal bible salesman. I went to a private school operated by the church. I can draw down the godhead in a ritual circle, perform sympathetic magic, plumb the catechism, and recite the bible from memory. My power went out last night in the big storm..and I spent two hours recounting norse creation myths and danish hero legends to my kids to keep them entertained. I sing hymns beautifully and with conviction.
I got alot of religious guidance.
It just never took..or it took so well in whole that I could very accurately see that all of these different traditions..purportedly about gods..were about human beings. I suppose it helped that while my family had plenty of religion they lacked the compulsion to religion urge.
Or, at least..that's what I think happened....could have been in the milk. There was alot of fluoride in the water too...maybe, in addition to making frogs gay it turns people into atheists?
I just made the connection .. your mother wasn't Sookie Stackhouse by any chance, was she?
