RE: what do christians (and people in general) mean by "feeling empty inside"?
April 16, 2013 at 4:01 pm
I think that religion as a concept works against the potential of peace and tolerance. It separates people into friends and non-friends (if not outright enemies) and draws some very clear lines. That doesn't promote peace or tolerance. It's why even religions that have some teachings of peace and tolerance don't seem to be able to get people to be peaceful or tolerant. When your concept requires that you recognize an "us" and a "them" and a system that provides "us" with rewards for being "right" and provides "them" with punishment for being "wrong" you're not really teaching peace and tolerance.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
