Btw for your information.. Religion is the biggest hypocritical organization since the dawn of time. They say non-religious people are wrong and bad and that we should pray to the lord almighty for forgiveness (now donate or you go to hell.)? Hah no... Matter of fact 90% of the time it's religion hating on science.
Hmm. Well, hypocrisy isn't really a valid accusation. Do you mean by Religion: All religions that exist, and have ever existed? Its a little difficult to group all the religions under one general category. The definition of a religion is notoriously difficult (and no-where near agreed upon, people are still trying to work out a definition for what is and isn't a religion).
Anyway, hypocrisy: even if a religious person is being hypocritical (not practising what he/she preaches), it doesn't necessarily mean that what they are preaching is wrong. Doctors tell people not to smoke, yet many doctors smoke. This doesn't mean that smoking isn't bad for you.
The perspectives of religious groups and individuals towards science are many and varied. The ones that get media coverage however, are generally those few who condemn science using poorly informed and hateful arguments. You don't generally hear about the vast majority of religious people who agree with scientific theory, or those who believe it has no impact on religious teachings and don't try to contrast the two belief systems, or those who oppose various scientific teachings for valid and well thought out reasons.
When someone tells me they are very religious, all that goes through my head is, "Ok, guess I'm smarter than you..." Humans came up with the idea of a God or gods to explain things we didn't understand, a "god of the gaps". As science and understanding have spread, religion has naturally retreated.
What goes through my head when I read someone equating religious belief with stupidity is, "Ok, guess you need a better education...".
Especially when they go on to make a claim ('
Humans came up with the idea of a God or gods to explain things we didn't understand') that implies that they think they can provide an answer to a question that has remained unanswered for thousands of years, despite the best efforts of some of the greatest thinkers of human history. Its amazing that you can provide such an answer after thinking about the subject for all of 10 minutes.
Perhaps you should write to the various heads of the world religions and share your unique and well thought out insight with them, and they can all go home and stop believing in God(s)? Its marvellous that we finally have the question of religion answered. I see a Nobel prize coming your way!
Did the flame shield work?
Also the modern Atheist trend is weird too. Why jumping on religion all the freaking time?
It isn't a modern trend. You can read about materialist, atheistic movements throughout history and in every culture, and also their (sometimes) inevitable conflict with religious movements.
The reasons for the current perceived conflict between atheists (who like to drag science into the argument, on their side naturally since most atheists are materialists and empiricists) and religious beliefs and teachings are incredibly complex. You would have to go all the way back to Plato or Aristotle to see why we have the atheist/theist conflict now, and probably even further back. And that's just in Western religion and philosophy.
My view of it is that certain atheists became jealous that only religious lunatics could make money from exploiting people by teaching them crap, and wanted to get in on the deal. So now we have atheist lunatics selling ignorance and misinformation and poorly informed dogmatic rubbish, and competing with the old style religious idiots for that market (Dawkins is a good example).
The conflict between theism and atheism (a philosophical debate) is sold to people as a conflict between science and religion, and hyped up to sell books and T.V series, and make certain individuals very wealthy. It isn't just used by cynical, exploitative salesmen though - politicians also like what they can do with the supposed conflict.
In a way its equality though - it isn't just religious salesmen now, its atheist ones too. I suppose they deserve the opportunity to lie to people just as much as some religious people do.
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