Have you quit eating meat, are you growing your own organic veggies, recycling your urine back into drinking water? Have you sold your car and stopped using electricity because YOU are destroying the earth, causing "global warming"?
Have you donated money to the "save the Sahara desert" project?
The guideline to living life is found in the bible, BTW, not the Vatican. The Vatican follows the Gospel and merely repeats what it says.
You probably don't know it, but you are most likely following quite a lot of what the bible says about living life. You should read it sometime, you might suprise yourself and see how "science" these days is merely confirming what the bible has been saying all along.
I try to.
I try not to kill, to lie etc... therefore I practice foregiveness... you know all the catchy stuff you could write on a single sheet of paper that is basic to good manners and behaviour.
But most of the bible is political - full of contradictions, written by so many people that followed so many ideas of how a scociety might work or should work -
-it’s nearly impossible not to life by it. Because it’s so wage.
And thenyou wrote:
+++ Have you quit eating meat, are you growing your own organic veggies, recycling your urine back into drinking water? Have you sold your car and stopped using electricity because YOU are destroying the earth, causing “global warming”? Have you donated money to the “save the Sahara desert” project? +++
No I am not personally recycling my urine. That’s what our cities sludge treatment is for. I do eat meat and I grow some veggies that I don’t bother to poison (an old sort of tomatoe - very tasty but with a tender skin - so it wouldn’t be marketable). I am using a car but I don ‘t posses one. Electricity is still my friend and what on earth is the sahara desert project ?
And one more question - what are these questions about ?
No surprise there, for believers or non-believers. The authors of the Bible were following philosophical traditions that form the roots of modern science. With no or rudimentary instruments, one can still observe phenomena and discern patterns. The ancients did not need an atomic clock to peg the equinoxes and solstices pretty accurately.
More refined scientific observations usually bear out the rough outline -- if you hear hoofbeats and a whinny in a European forest, whether you're a modern scientist or an ancient philosopher, you're overwhelmingly likely to track them back to a horse, not a zebra.