Let's Talk About Religion

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rocketpig said:

To claim that religion has done more damage than good is to separate humanity from its very quest for knowledge. The origination of religion (at least in my opinion) is to explain the inexplicable.

Yes, religion has done damage over the years. It's also spurred some of the greatest scientific quests in all of history. Separating the two in historical terms is fallacy and has only come into prominence with the "modern" method of thinking, which is a parting of church and state.

Too many people cast off the good of religion in favor of the bad it has caused; it's a short-term way of thinking. Humanity is evolving and I'd like to think it's moving toward a sense of freedom from dogmatic ways of thinking. Unfortunately, I think too many people are shifting their dogma from religion to science, and it's simply one "unexplainable" to another (more rational in their head) "unexplainable".

Much modern organised religion says that which is unexplained is unexplainable as it is the work of God(s). Science says that which is unexplained we should try really hard to try and figure out, well at least that is what science should do. People who believe that what science says is ever an absolute truth are just as closed minded as those who believe that every word of the bible is accurate, the greatest thing about science in my opinion is the fact that a lot of scientific effort goes into proving current scienctific beliefs wrong.

While organised religion has done great things for mankind it is no longer helpful in the search for knowledge because ever since (and even prior to in many cases) the dawn of modern science the major churches have clashed with any scientific teaching that challenges their dogma.