The New "Religion Vs Science" Thread

Honnold is modeling something else, a kind of radical truthfulness. -Brett Stephens

Science is modeling a kind of radical truthfulness.

the restraining limits, the insipid pablum of pop-culture... -PaulR

You know, you speak sarcastically (correct me if I'm wrong) but all the Star Trek and Marvel Studio mythologies, for example,*** are also important genres of literature, storytelling and the humanities.

Proof positive you've never experienced more than bits at most of the Star Trek Universe.

Fascinating, the idea of equating pop culture with high culture as in Star Trek and Comic books are "important literature."

Xcon: SINCE the hooks religion exploits in the human are as rooted in our beings as grammar what prevents IT from being studied starting in grade school as a subject valuable to the student in the suscessful navigation of the world?

If religion suits you, consider the muslim faith.

Well what's pretty clear to any reasonably educated person of C21 is that Abrahamic religion as practiced traditionally (whatever its version, C or I) is divisive af.

the good western religions have done Africa only come after FIRST destroying the place and turning its good people into beggars

The Roman Catholic Church is the largest non-government provider of health care services in the world.[1] It has around 18,000 clinics, 16,000 homes for the elderly and those with special needs, and 5,500 hospitals, with 65 percent of them located in developing countries.[2] In 2010, the Church's Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers said that the Church manages 26% of the world's health care facilities.[3] The Church's involvement in health care has ancient origins.

Catholic schools are parochial schools or education ministries of the Roman Catholic Church. As of 2011, the Church operates the world's largest non-governmental school system.[1] In 2016, the church supported 43,800 secondary schools, and 95,200 primary schools

But in retrospect you'll understand. In 25 years, you'll look back and see that religion isn't the only life guidance system (or life management system) that addresses people's deepest concerns (incl yours). We're all in a new age now. 500 years ago, let alone 5000, the world was different.

Today millions of people are proving to themselves, often through their own exploration and discovery - and of course with the aid of the internet, lol - that there are ways, and systems of ways, already in place and feverishly under development too (besides religion or theism), that addresses your "reconciliation of Nature with being" concern.

Keep the faith, man.

I suppose we should shut it down as soon as possible...

that there are ways, and systems of ways, already in place and feverishly under development too (besides religion or theism),
that addresses your "reconciliation of Nature with being" concern.