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Post by Lex on Nov 4, 2010 15:11:12 GMT -5
It was a joke. The point is, before long, that's what the thread will descend into.
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Quinn
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Post by Quinn on Nov 6, 2010 14:13:19 GMT -5
Religon is the act of filling in blanks.
Obviously, people don't have all the answers. So they think of what might be true and answer questions.
"Who are we?" "Where did we come from?" "What put us here?"
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Post by mhart29 on Nov 6, 2010 23:44:52 GMT -5
The reason i didn't put this in a&e is because i saw that this did bring up a debate so i didn't change it.
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Post by Flappy on Nov 8, 2010 16:10:28 GMT -5
What I find interesting is that religion has hardly changed from the beginning (Ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Norway, etc.) Except that the approach has become more (in the western world) of a monotheistic ideology. Which, to me, makes less sense than a polytheistic ideology. Religion is a no-evidence way to explain the questions of "why?" and "how?" the universe and life (and everything else) has come to exist as it does now and how it did in the past. Today, science helps us out a lot.
It's almost as if religion is still in the baby stages, like it never really grew into a complete idea, it just stayed as is. (It's still in Alpha testing. Where science is more in the final product -Philosophy and the development of science would be the beta-testing of science-. It's still gonna have some gicthes and kinks, but for the most part, it's a solid, working, final product.)
Basically all I'm saying is that, because evidence for the supernatural elements of the Bible have never been found, it cannot evolve into something more than speculation. So where the history of the Bible might hold some ground, it is being held back by the supernatural aspect.
-This is, of course addressing Christianity specifically, but can be addressing any religion really.
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