On 07 Dec 2013, at 20:05, meekerdb wrote:
On 12/7/2013 12:59 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 06 Dec 2013, at 20:16, meekerdb wrote:
On 12/6/2013 7:27 AM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Dec 5, 2013, at 12:15 PM, Quentin Anciaux <[email protected]>
wrote:
2013/12/5 Jason Resch <[email protected]>
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Quentin Anciaux <[email protected]
> wrote:
A religion is based on dogma, science is not, hence science is
not a religion.
Some religions may be, that doesn't mean they all are, however.
How do you relate science to beliefs about the world and
reality? Would you say science the collection of those beliefs,
or the method for developing the beliefs?
Science is a way to discover the world, nothing is certain, what
you believe now may be shown wrong tomorrow... that's not the
case with religion...
So if science is the way, the way to what? Where do the beliefs
belong?
I would say a more correct definition of religion is a collection
if beliefs, regardless of how you got them.
Another attempt to sweep everybody into the religion bin.
Some may rely on dogmas if old books, others on newer books and
articles, but either method, science or stake dogmas can provide
the basis of one's world view.
Science never provides the final answer, and so to operate in
this world we must act in our own private beliefs.
And religion is always ready to provide a final answer, one never
to be questioned,
And that is bad, right, but that will continue as long as you
forbid to scientist to take a look on the spiritual questions.
What am I doing to forbid anything? I even cited with approval
scientific tests of "spritual theories".
Because you are a nice agnostic guy. Not an atheists like those I met
on my path.
because if it's the right answer then it must always have been
right.
That is just my take according to my own definitions. You may
define religion as dogma and come to different cinclusions.
I take 'religion' to mean what people refer to when they say they
belong to a religion.
Brent
"Atheist n A person to be pitied in that he is unable to
believe things for which there is no evidence, and who has thus
deprived himself of a convenient means of feeling superior to
others."
Again, that is agnosticism, not atheism.
It's a quip, not a serious definition. But I am an agnostic about
many things - but not about the God of theism, the Big Daddy in the
sky
I am atheist too. Most of my Muslim and Christian friends are atheists
too. All theologians I read are agnostic too. The "big Daddy" is an
image, a poetical stance, like when Einstein invoke "the good lord".
May be billions of people believe literally in the big daddy (or
pretend, because I find hard to actually believe this), but billions
of people have believed that the sun moves around the earth, or are
wrong on Galilee and cannabis. That is not a reason to make them right
by allowing the absence of rigor in the fundamental question, nor to
let the health in the politics department.
Health is that last century following the fate of theology during that
last millennium.
that billions of people worship and give money to support a
priesthood and sometimes stone those who express doubt. So I'm an a-
theist. You will have to excuse me for holding to a definite
meaning of the word "theist" so that I can express this fact;
everybody but you seems to understand me quite well.
I understand you, but that atheism, which I share, has nothing to do
with the more insidious and violent form of atheism of the
fundamentalists in Europa. They don't reject just god, they reject
"consciousness", "mind", spirituality, persons, and some are secretly
sadist. They believe that truth = money = power and that's all: they
do what they want (including very bad things, and using them
manipulate people). They are active revisionist, and despite what they
pretend, they are the enemy of reason and genuine free thinking/
interrogation, and of course they are usually not aware that they are
believer, which would not be the case if Aristotle and Plato theology
were better taught.
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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