On 6/8/2018 3:54 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
You confuse religion with argument per authority, and tat will
continue as long as theology does not come back to science, which put
reason before texts, and is modest in never claiming truth, but only
means of testing ideas.
No, you are confusing religion and theology. Very few religious people
are theologians. They believe things on faith because they are told
they are written in sacred texts. It is a form of social control which
works fairly well. That is why it is so widespread. It depends though on
poisoning the minds of children with myths and elevating faith without
reason to a virtue.
Brent
“When we come to believe, we have no desire to believe anything else,
for we begin by believing that there is nothing else which we have to
believe…. I warn people not to seek for anything beyond what they came
to believe, for that was all they needed to seek for. In the last
resort, however, it is better for you to remain ignorant, for fear that
you come to know what you should not know…. Let curiosity give place
to faith, and glory to salvation. Let them at least be no hindrance,
or let them keep quiet. To know nothing against the Rule [of faith]
is to know everything.”
--- Tertullian
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