(March 21, 2013 at 7:27 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:(March 21, 2013 at 4:23 pm)Sagasa Wrote: I've never liked the, "It's a mystery that we can't comprehend," argument. It's basically arrogance masquerading as humility.
Real humility, the sort that says, "I don't know, I'm not going to make any assumptions, I'm going to find out as much about it as I can," is what science is based on. Religious people use that phrase as if it's the magic answer to all of life's questions that they don't understand. That's the worst folly there is, thinking you've got all the answers when you don't.
And yet here is you, hilariously dismissing religious endeavour as 'magic answers'.
Sweet.
Well, yes. Because at some point in your personal religious endeavor, you reach that point where you have to decide to take that leap of faith. It's either that or the whole thing falls apart. At a certain point where the answers stop, what some people call "the Magic Event Horizon", logic fails and so people have to make that huge leap even without evidence or rationality. That's when they play the God card and assume that that's the end of it. Mystery solved, let's all go home. It's assuming you have all the answers when you don't and dressing it up as humility.
