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What I think of religion.

IvoryDreamer

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First blog entry and I am already going to spark some controversy :D

Here is some of my life story if you want to know where I come from.

 

When I was growing up I loved science, I still do, and I read books about it for hours. I found everything fascinating about how the world and universe worked. All that cool stuff.

 

Now my family at the time were Christians. Believed in the bible, went to church. The whole shebang. Even though we were Christians we weren't evangelical at all. In fact we were pretty laid back. There was only one instance where my mom's beliefs almost hindered my love for science. That was when I read that the earth was about 4.5 billion years old. My mom said that wasn't true because it was supposed to be around 6,000 years old according to bible scholars. I believed her at the time, but kept reading my books.

 

So that was my childhood. During my teen years I stopped going to church. I just found it boring, I also wanted to stay home and play games :P. so I stopped going. My family followed soon after. for other reasons. Later after some time I did a search on how to water bend. I found a couple sites talking about chakras, chi, and meditation. For a while I believed it and I practiced it for a while, but stopped when there was no progress.

 

During that time I learned that the other religions all believed they were the right one. This caused me to think that either all religions have some truth, or that they all were wrong. Most religious came from trying to describe how and why nature did what it did. And as such they relied on what sight told them and what feelings they had.

 

Now I would call myself an agnostic. Now to some that would automatically make me an atheist. I don't mind that. Just know that I'm not an anti-theist, If there ever is proof that a religion is correct, I will think about changing my beliefs.

 

 

 

Disclaimer: This is what I think of religions. I will seem to generalize, but that doesn't mean it applies to all religious people, or even all religions. I am sure there are great religious people out there.

 

First off I think religion has done a lot of harm in the earths history. I won't condemn any current believers for what happened in the past. You all are different people.

 

Second, I think religion is a failed science, and as such, a human creation. Science is trying to understand and explain how nature works, and religion has tried to do just that. Although, sometimes it was to get power over others.

 

Third, I do think religion has done some good. For example, the compassion project and other charities. More even I think they do want good to happen in the world.

 

Finally, I think some religions need to retire. They were useful in the past, but now seem to be trying to hard to stay relevant in a ever changing world.

 

Ask me questions if you like. If you must point out grammar errors, please add something to the conversation while you do it.

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Ezio Auditore

 

 

Second, I think religion is a failed science, and as such, a human creation. Science is trying to understand and explain how nature works, and religion has tried to do just that. Although, sometimes it was to get power over others.

 

I can see your point, and it's true what you say to some extent especially in regards to things like Greek Mythos but I must disagree. You see I am a Christian, many members of my faith have tried to read the Bible as a science textbook. It isn't. It was never intended to be.

 

For instance claim that the Earth is 6,000 years old comes from an error made on the part of some of the earliest Bible scholars that had a very weak grasp of cosmology at the time. The Bible never claims the Earth is 6,000 years old, and any proper Hebrew scholar will tell you that the Bible doesn't even seem to discuss the age of the Earth. 

 

My religion does not seek to explain the observable universe as science does but rather it tries to explain the transcendent nature of existence. In fact I believe that the Bible actually encourages science, and many of the greatest scientific minds were greatly influenced by it. Following off from this point I don't think science and religion are at odds with each other, but I suppose this isn't really the time for that discussion.

 

Put more simply science explains the "How?" while religion attempts to explain the "Why?" 

 

You see I also love science, and I'm glad you do too, if you'd ever like to talk about science and religion or how I rationalize both of them, please feel free to PM me, I really love discussing it. :)

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Now that I think more of it more, it makes more sense that the first religions were born from poor understanding of the natural world, rather than being failed science.

 

Put more simply science explains the "How?" while religion attempts to explain the "Why?"

 

I think science explains both, like how does a tree grow? And why are its leaves green? There are the harder questions like: How and why did the universe start? How and why do we have consciousness? How and why is there more matter than anti-matter?
 

You see I also love science, and I'm glad you do too, if you'd ever like to talk about science and religion or how I rationalize both of them, please feel free to PM me, I really love discussing it.

 
Thank you fellow science lover. I've seen to many mindless comments on various websites that I sometimes forget that there are a lot of people who are actually very intelligent.

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