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That would be really annoying, to worship Jesus but end up in Hell because you had the wrong version of Jesus.
ReplyDeleteFor that matter, hundreds of millions of people lived before Christianity was established, so they never had a chance to believe in the "true" religion because it didn't exist yet when they were alive. Most Christians seem to be OK with this. So by the same logic, if there is one true religion, it could be one which nobody today believes in, or can believe in, because it hasn't been established yet but will arise centuries in the future.
The Stenger quote is perfect.
Science and religion (multifarious as they both are) each have long traditions of nonsense, and, historically, often overlap.
ReplyDeleteThere's no comparison. Science is based on rigorously drawing conclusions from evidence. The scientific method assumes that scientists, like everyone else, have biases, and it includes mandatory procedures to filter experimenter bias out of experimental results. If science has sometimes come to wrong conclusions, it was because of incomplete or misunderstood evidence at the time; it is self-correcting as new evidence becomes available. The conclusions of science enable us to create technology that actually works, which shows us that the scientific understanding of the underlying reality is correct. Vaccines and computers and space probes can only work because science has correctly understood the physical processes underlying them.
DeleteReligion has none of that. It's just random nonsense dogmatically asserted regardless of evidence.
Infidel - Thank you for your comment.
DeleteLet's put our faith in the rigor of science, and limiting the biases of scientists. The "scientific method" is a comfortable illusion, an ideal, exactly as reliable (and moral, and justified) as the people who strive to practice it, in which, again, it overlaps, historically and even today (and even in the lives of many scientists) with faith in intangible things.
DeleteAh-yup.
ReplyDeleteIn USA where christianity is outfront all the time, it's very curious how the actions of some like in this anti Christ administration are not following that Jesus' teaching.
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