RE: Is 'faith' really a 'great cop-out'?
November 3, 2008 at 10:48 am
(This post was last modified: November 3, 2008 at 10:51 am by Daystar.)
CoxRox, I agree that there is an unfortunate propensity for the 'faithful' to adhere more to traditional, social, and cultural manifestations of religion but I disagree with you that science can't sometimes be used in the same way. It is important for me to stress that at the least both science and the Bible are not in reality the school of thought being properly considered or represented and at the worst used as a tool of propaganda for some other - usually politically motivated agenda.
So when the young impressionable Atheist looks at the faithful and the myopic traditional mainstream Xian there is a sort of xenophobic reflection - a transmogrification of each other which prevents each from seeing that they are actually two sides of the same coin. From the vantage point of this wall that divides the quixotic from the mundane any open minded person that looks up to the sky as David once did and then looks down can see that for this political formation that gets wider and wider never the twain shall meet.
Tell me where science disagrees with the Bible.
So when the young impressionable Atheist looks at the faithful and the myopic traditional mainstream Xian there is a sort of xenophobic reflection - a transmogrification of each other which prevents each from seeing that they are actually two sides of the same coin. From the vantage point of this wall that divides the quixotic from the mundane any open minded person that looks up to the sky as David once did and then looks down can see that for this political formation that gets wider and wider never the twain shall meet.
Tell me where science disagrees with the Bible.
