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Science and Religious belief can coexist
Science and Religious belief cannot coexist
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No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No you can't. Is capitalism a religion? Is feminism a religion? Ideologies and economic policies ARE NOT RELIGIONS.
What makes you think either of those things are religions
So you're saying communists are secret Christians? :lol:
If it has dogma which cannot be challenged, preists who are incharge of such dogma, set ways of thinking etc... then it's a religion. Look at global warming.
No. No I'm not. I'm saying that thought police are Satanists.
I am an agnostic. I can only know what I actually know.
Science is the art of knowing, and so I see no reason that those who do believe in God should reject it. What kid of God would give us the keys to discovering the workings of creation and then demand we don't use them?
If it has dogma which cannot be challenged, preists who are incharge of such dogma, set ways of thinking etc... then it's a religion. Look at global warming.
I'm a theist (Christian) and science and religion can coexist just fine, they're doing that right now -- best exemplified in the first world, developed nations across the world. There's only conflict if you want there to be conflict.
Science is the culmative knowledge we have of reality. Religion is mankind's first attempts to understand reality. They got a lot of things wrong.
Now a days we see a whole range of interpetations of the old myths. A lot of people try to fit what we now know into these old myths and say it's compatable. To do this they have to move away from a literal definition of these myths. The compatability of religion and science is dependent on the flexibility of the interpeter. Those who want the old myths to be true and have meaning are quite flexible indeed.
So I could believe in God, but as long as I don't attend a dogmatic church I'm not religious?
Projection is a subtle psychological schema for selfjustification of one's untenable worldview
Satanism is just another sect of Christianity. Why are the "though police" Satanists?
If it has dogma which cannot be challenged, preists who are incharge of such dogma, set ways of thinking etc... then it's a religion. Look at global warming.
Dogma is not exclusive to religion, as a matter of fact, it's simply a word a set of principles. Professional body building has dogma. Artistry has dogma. Neither are religions. No priests in communism/feminism/capitalism etc, and global warming has been challenged in multiple ways. Try again.
Dogma is not exclusive to religion, as a matter of fact, it's simply a word a set of principles. Professional body building has dogma. Artistry has dogma. Neither are religions. No priests in communism/feminism/capitalism etc, and global warming has been challenged in multiple ways. Try again.
Political correctness is a religion. Deal with it.
It seems it is all semantics actually
You seem to be both right....
Ideologies could, technically fall under the second definition... does it not?
hmmm your interpretation seems a little rigid, but again... It doesn't matter to meNope, there aren't any semantics to be played. It's people using a word wrong. That word being: Religion. Religions have supernatural beings. None of the ideologies and economic policies have any supernatural beings. There is nothing to be faithful about when it comes to them. Continuing this argument that it's a religion because people simply believe a particular measure is best, is quite absurd.
No. Political ideologies are competing ideas for how to best structure a society or how to view events. Only one of these political ideas for good governance specifically carries religious implications. That is theocracy. Theocracy itself is NOT a religion. It's structuring government THROUGH a specific set of religious beliefs. So outside of that you have: republicanism, liberalism, feminism, capitalism, sexism, racism, marxism, libertarianism, fascism etc. None of which exist as a particular system of faith or worship. Nobody goes to the church of republicanism or confesses their sins to feminist priests. There are no ethnic or racial undercurrents behind these political ideologies. That's why they're not religions. Please, this is Poli-Sci 101.
hmmm your interpretation seems a little rigid, but again... It doesn't matter to me
There is no rigidity. I simply refuse to use words incorrectly. :shrug:
can you not worship an object? Can you not worship an idea? Can you not have faith in a object? Can you not have faith in a idea?
Not religious faith, no. The definition of faith is "strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof." I have none of that in anything. One of the important things of having a rational discussion is maintaining accurate definitions. You ought to try that.
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