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Yes, Christianity requires those various constructs to exist as a church. But what created organized religion is still a part of us, and it still strives us to hunt down the meaning for one's existence, or for the answers to questions like the afterlife. That's why people convert, or gain their faith after long periods of not caring.
Man created church and to date there is no evidence to support any other conclusion, and as is the nature of mankind it seeks control over his environment. The "church" (doesn't matter which one ) seeks to exert control over not just his environment, but other people
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You're arguing that Science exists independently. You're right. Without humans, Science will still continue through biology, or plate tectonics, or the various other motions of the planet and the universe. Of course, if God(s) exists, you can say the same thing about God as well. God(s) will exist long after humanity doesn't because God, or Gods created humanity, the planet, etc etc etc in the first place. If you don't want to factor in the human element, then what's the point? Hawking, Einstein, Newton, etc various discoveries are really just giving us understanding of what already exists. If we lose their understanding through some disaster, gravity will still work.
You're confusing 'science' with geography and biology and evolution. Those things would continue but science is the process of determining the actual nature of our lives by the use of critical thinking, experiment and evidence. You equate 'science' in this case with a deity. The issue at hand is that science has a process of creating a theory and then proving that theory. Religion has a theory but has no way of determining whether the tales it tells have any actual truth in relation to dterminable evidence
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The study of science really isn't that different from the desire of religion either. Both strive to find answers to the many questions that exist within, and around us. Yes, science is the study of things that exist as independently verifiable facts...2+2=4, to every human or alien in existence. The planet revolves around the sun to all humans. We strive to discover answers. Science provides the answers to things that are already known to be true, even if we don't know if they're true yet. Religion, both the organized, and the spiritual sense, provides answers that we can't prove true or false.
I've said it before and it bears saying again.
Religion would love to be treated on the same plain as science, it would give credibility to 'religion' that it very much wants. The fact is that know matter how long you debate how many angels can dance on the tip of a needle , you still need to prove scientifically that angels do in fact exist
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What I'm contending is that our "Religion", or the desire to answer the subjective questions that we all ask ourselves and one another (What is the meaning of life, or one's existence, or our purpose, or what happens after death). The "Human Religion" or human spirituality will stay as constant as science until all humans cease to exist. And then, one must ask, what happens to our humanity after we die? Do all of our achievements rot away, erode, disintegrate, or vanish? Does our essence or our "soul" live on in some other dimension or other living being?
what religious believers do with their own time is their own business. The problems arise is when 'believers' start' thinking that because people must have a soul (without any proof of such) that they start trying to force other people to act as the 'believers' think they should
The Homophobic and discriminatory ideas that are rampant within the the US and to large extent the Conservative party in Canada compel these people of the United Sates to deny equal rights to gays to gt married to one another and attempt remove freedom of choice from women. The former because they think god told them gays were bad and the latter because they think a fetus has a 'soul'
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And church attendance is less than it was 50 years ago....so? 50 years from now there will be a religious resurgence. Or maybe Christianity will cease to exist. A huge percentage of people still consider themselves religious or spiritual, and attending Sunday Mass does not make one more or less religious in its own right.
I dont care on way or the other, as long as people keep their religion out of public policy they can worship trees for all i care. But when they start to poke thier religious noses into public issues, and make policy based upon an unprovable deity, then that's where they have to be stopped
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