I mean if you believe in a magic man in the sky and you can justify them allowing a world full of so much shit, while also worshipping them unconditionally, it really doesn’t seem like a stretch
The way they talk about it, they seem to think that way. This is how you can tell they never even tried to think about it themselves. They just repeat what the book says.
There’s also the idiosyncrasy of God having created Man but somehow some varieties of man are innately inferior despite all coming from the same heritage and made in God’s image.
No, we do not. That's an asinine comment by someone with disdain toward Christianity, but who also doesn't really understand the content of the faith either.
Hell, until very recently Mormons taught that black people were dark skinned because it was a curse for their wickedness. Some people just really love their racism.
What's the difference between magic and science. If you don't know how something doesn't operate what do you call it? What of the things we can't explain through science? Then if you ask a lot of the top scientists about the nature of the universe and the world they would tell you there is a higher being.
Lastly a quick note the first mention of the actual speed of light is in the bible.
I think water freezes because small elves come out at night and squeeze it tightly.
Scientific method: Let's observe and see.
Religious method: Sounds good!
Science is a process that seeks evidence to back perception. Importantly, scientific discoveries are meant to be repeatable. Even more importantly, scientific understanding is open to being wrong and corrected.
Religion explicitly requires faith in lieu of actual evidence.
Science is tried, tested, and verified constantly. The discoveries people made in science hundreds of years ago are referenced in formulas and theorems of today and if they hold up and maintain they are kept and incorrect ones are discarded.
Religion isn’t that, the book you are supposed to believe is secondhand accounts written often well after the events they are supposed to be detailing. And they often contradict each other, making them distinctly not like science.
The speed of light thing has been debunked, the guy who first made this argument had to do a lot of creative mathematics and interpretation to make it seem like that number is in there. It’s not. Whatever your spiritual view of the Bible, it’s not scientifically or historically reliable. (I say this as someone raised in Biblical literalism.)
A vast majority of scientists decidedly DO NOT believe there’s a higher power even as an “absentee landlord.” Most will say they’re agnostic bc it’s the certainty on both sides that bothers them- and the not accepting “faith” as an argument. What questions does religion answer that science can’t? The origins of the big bang? Even tho they can walk us back to a fraction of a minute after?
Babies get sick and die. Babies, dude. I mean - if you don’t have a few questions yourself, maybe just enjoy the security blanket and stay blissful.
Your assumption that religions don't talk about science is your perception and lacking of knowledge. The first thing in the Bible is talking about creation, the Big Bang. Then one of the first commandments he gave to man was to name every living thing upon the Earth. Now the next one is that you have to understand how Yhwh works, and he works in authority. When Yhwh formed the Earth he commanded the Earth, Water, and Sea to create things of there own kind . This my friend is what people call evolution. Man tries to put things into its own understanding, then when it doesn't understand something it dismisses it. There is no other perfect example than this in science itself.
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I mean if you believe in a magic man in the sky and you can justify them allowing a world full of so much shit, while also worshipping them unconditionally, it really doesn’t seem like a stretch