| FentonCrackshell said: When the Mormon Church began it stated that God said blacks are inhuman and therefore not welcomed into their congregation. In the 1960s when the church realized most of the country was coming around due to the civil rights movement, the church decided that blacks are OK. Knowing that, I can't understand why no one sees the notion that god created religion as a complete and utter farce. |
Do you believe that science is evil because in Nazi Germany, they did cruel and inhumane experiments on people? I'm guessing not, because it would be ridiculous to judge such a broad spectrum of people, information, accomplishments, etc, on it's worst adherents.
To judge all religion as a farce because of racist teachings of an individual church is illogical. Much like the fact that 'science' can't all be clumped under a single heading with a "true" or "false" label, religions need to be judged on their own merits. In every scientific field in history, there have been hundreds of guess/theories which were proven false before correct answers were found. It doesn't invalidate science, it rather shows the importance of finding what's right, not looking at the first answer and then discarding an entire line of thought.
It's kind of funny how people view science as the antithesis of religion, but fail to use the scientific method to actually determine the validity of religions... They are then somehow still being confident in their decision, even though it was made in a way that wouldn't fly, elsewhere.
