Great post Kelisha, and welcome 
I'm ready to join atheist ranks at the redundancy, hypocrisy and staleness of religion. Maybe the enlightenment hastened that upon us. I'd like to think so. I personally can't see how religion should have anything to do with scientific thought. The pursuit of knowledge is not a religious one, and the path of theology certainly has nothing to do with science. Science would call religion superstitious, but then science has to lump all of religion into a small container. Superstition isn't religion IMO. Religion separates superstition out of the equation into a category all of it's own. It's good to be able to wonder at the world for what it is... from the perspective of understanding, as in scientific, and of love.
I'm ready to join atheist ranks at the redundancy, hypocrisy and staleness of religion. Maybe the enlightenment hastened that upon us. I'd like to think so. I personally can't see how religion should have anything to do with scientific thought. The pursuit of knowledge is not a religious one, and the path of theology certainly has nothing to do with science. Science would call religion superstitious, but then science has to lump all of religion into a small container. Superstition isn't religion IMO. Religion separates superstition out of the equation into a category all of it's own. It's good to be able to wonder at the world for what it is... from the perspective of understanding, as in scientific, and of love.
