So you're a Protestant just not an *obedient* one. On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 11:03 AM Christopher Havel <laserhaw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Science is something I can and do believe in. I'll take what can be > concretely proved over what can't, any day of the week. > > That said, I do reserve a bit of reverence of a sort (for lack of a better > term) for what cannot be determined through strictly Cartesian means (i.e. > deconstructing a thing into its component elements, on the belief that the > larger thing's functionality will become evident through said > deconstruction)... it was Douglas Adams, I believe, who noted (quite > truthfully) that, "[i]f you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, > the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat." There is > something that is inescapably metaphysical about life itself and how it > comes about, at least in this world at this time, and I have a sort of > respect for that -- an understanding between me and the universe, if you > will, that there may be something that science can't explain that's going > on there. > > But that's really about as close as I get to religion or faith. Organized > religion, quite honestly, seems to me an exercise in podiatric > self-marksmanship (if you'll forgive the euphemism) -- if the point of the > whole thing is to bring you closer to God, why put structure and > organization and the inevitable middlemen that such things bring with them, > in between you and Him...? It simply doesn't make sense to me that, in > order to speak to God, you have to go through something to the effect of a > human bucket-brigade -- which sounds like an open opportunity for things to > go like a game of Telephone, amongst the other disadvantages. > _______________________________________________ > arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk > http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook > Send large attachments to arm-netb...@files.phcomp.co.uk _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to arm-netb...@files.phcomp.co.uk
