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pearljammer on 28 January 2016
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aLkaLiNE said:
So what you're inferring is that the world would be a better place if none of us believed in God? You think that all of the wars would go away? All the crime would magically stop? Everybody would finally get along and we could live in unity under one governmental direction?

 

  • I can't speak for him, but I don't think anyone would be so arrogant as to claim that. At not point did he take an absolutist stance indicating as such.

 


As far as holding back science goes, science is nearly as much of a dive as religion is considering no one actually understands how gravity works and even our theories/laws have holes in them. All that really means is that everything we have found so far is not without exception and not absolute.

 

  • Admitting that we don't know is the basis of science. It's basically making observations, comparing them, predicting them and then thoroughly testing them. That's all. If they come up false, try again. There is no hubris there. No arrogance. It's the exact opposite, actually. Philosophy is important, certainly but it's not at all comparable in the manner you're doing it.

Personally I don't subscribe to a religion. I do consider myself agnostic though, based on the premise that there is something extraordinary about human anatomy and the missing link we're looking for will question our very existence. We just Do. Not. Know. And I really wish that people who support gay rights or modern era things like that would see the equality in also supporting people that choose to believe in a religion.

 

 

  • I don't think you'll find many atheists or even anti-theists who don't support one's right to believe in a religion.