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To: MonroeDNA
As long as nobody confuses God with religeon.

Religion is merely a means for the finite to approach the Infinite. Perfectly reasonable and appropriate when it's understood for it's purpose and limitations. When we decide however, that a certain man-made system is closer than others or -- even worse -- that ours is the Only Way because the Almighty said so, then we are flirting with dogmatism. As such it is blasphemy.
6 posted on 07/16/2006 5:24:33 PM PDT by walford (http://the-big-pic.org)
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To: walford
As long as nobody confuses God with religeon.

Religion is merely a means for the finite to approach the Infinite. Perfectly reasonable and appropriate when it's understood for it's purpose and limitations. When we decide however, that a certain man-made system is closer than others or -- even worse -- that ours is the Only Way because the Almighty said so, then we are flirting with dogmatism. As such it is blasphemy.


Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated out of nothing, "blasphemy" is the most amazing -- with "obscenity" and "indecent exposure" fighting it out for second and third place.

Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, 1973


7 posted on 07/16/2006 5:29:41 PM PDT by Coyoteman (I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
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To: walford
Religion is merely a means for the finite to approach the Infinite. Perfectly reasonable and appropriate when it's understood for it's purpose and limitations. When we decide however, that a certain man-made system is closer than others or -- even worse -- that ours is the Only Way because the Almighty said so, then we are flirting with dogmatism. As such it is blasphemy.

The article is intellectually bankrupt. It assumes God doesn't want his name used for evil, thus the Blasphemy of Dogma. However such an idea about God must also be a Dogma. Further the history in that article is wrong concerning the Reformation. Reformation initiated years of religious wars. No one, not protestant or Catholic thought at the time that they couldn't salve the disagreement by force. Only over years of exhaustive conflict did they stop fighting over it (although they haven't really in some places). In any case the religious wars did leave everyone with a cynical attitude, which paved the way for the Enlightenment and the irreligiousness of the last few centuries.

32 posted on 07/16/2006 9:16:09 PM PDT by BarbaricGrandeur
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To: walford
Religion is merely a means for the finite to approach the Infinite.

In other words, science is everything that can be modeled and predicted by mathematics.

Mathematics breaks down at the singularities. The realm of mathematics is constantly expanding as we improve the models and eliminate the singularities.

Beyond the singularities - that's where religion, superstition and speculation take over.


BUMP

48 posted on 07/17/2006 3:31:42 AM PDT by capitalist229 (Get Democrats out of our pockets and Republicans out of our bedrooms.)
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