If Ecumenicalism were useful, then upon comparing notes between Religious ideals, one would obtain new and useful information about humans, god, and the universe that would go beyond guesswork and would lead toward deeper, confirmable insights into their nature. Yet this never happens, and that actually does imply that religious belief is really not a very good starting point from which to understand anything for the exact same reason that one should not expect to solve a complex and difficult problem with a random, undirected guess - especially if that guess originates from a time when humans knew nothing about the world around them. Furthermore, when religious ideas, which are based on ab initio assumptions of profound knowledge, are compared against scientific findings, which have their beginnings in an acknowledgement of ignorance, religious ideas are always found wanting. Christians, for example, have had to routinely edit their myths for public consumption in order to account for findings from science. The book of Genesis claims "In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth," yet astronomers can now see regions where stars, planets, and galaxies in different stages of formation across the sky without any sign of some mystical deity doing its work. Religious doctrine was forced to retreat in order to preserve itself. The Higgs Boson discovery has pushed religious ideas back even further - if there were a deity that created the Universe, it has not created anything massive within it because particle physics have shown that so-call "Creation" is a dynamic process governed by the rules sought out and partially understood by current Physics. Religion is merely a symbol of latent human inertia and ignorance mixed with a hefty dose of misplaced hope. alternet.org/story/149588/no%2C_atheists_don%27t_have_to_show_%22respect%22_for_religion?page=0%2C0
Posted on: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 14:39:32 +0000
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