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Originally Posted by Tim
The death of religious faith was proclaimed at the end of the nineteenth century. There is nothing left of that claim.
As for your comments - a small amount of reason and tolerance go a long way. Why are you so hostile to spirituality? Why are you so contemptuous of religious faith? Where does all that malice come from?
I fully accept and appreciate the vital importance of scientific inquiry and methodology. I do not expect my faith to answer questions of science. But neither do I expect science to address questions of meaning and purpose. That is moving away from the open mind of science and into materialism as a strict ideology.
Why not consider a more tolerant and inclusive viewpoint?
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Nietzsche should have claimed that God was dying, like I have, not that he was dead. But I guess lesser minds than my own plod along as best they can
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And I don't have a huge problem with the view of religion that you take in your post. I don't like it, and I think it's more harmful to both society and the individual than a more realistic view of the world, but I can be tollerant toward it.
But I wasn't responding to a post about how religion can help the individual find meaning and purpose.
I was responding to Euro-Chess' post about how you can't explain the motions of the Sun without relying on an appeal to a fairy tale character.
That kind of empirical view of religion I have no tollerance for.
It's the same kind of view that keeps little Muslim girls out of school, that prosecutes homosexuals here in the United States, and that continues to insist that one way of life is better than another simply because some jackass is able to find some convoluted defense of repression in a 2000 year old book written by people who were closer to the cave then they were to modernity.