Elijah, thanks for your reply (and no, as long as our argument remains that of ideology and not personality nothing will be taken to offense), but I don't see how you think that I am wrong to any degree on this point.
Marxian Science isn't a point to be held valid for this argument at all. Science is merely a way to gather factual knowledge. It is completely neutral, it has no agenda, this is easily proved by watching chemicals react, they react the same way each time, they are not racist, they do not have feelings toward each other... they simply trade subatomic particles as needed. There is nothing about science that is inherently good or evil, anyone can abuse anyone can abuse any knowledge, These atrocities would have been attempted on other scales had it not been for the convenience of the "bomb" it is that fault of the person who misuses technology, not the engineer or scientist (unless they freely do this to harm people).
Religion on the other hand has an agenda, and makes claims of things that have happened, and will happen, and since they are packaged so nicely, people just eat them right up. Religion is not neutral, and it does not have the benefit of proof.
People who use technology to intentionally harm people are bad to begin with
People who use scripture in sincere belief that they are right, and harm people... are delusional, and need help as do the people who abuse technology to their own gains
Elijah, we have to remember, that technology can be misused by everyone... from atheists, to Muslims, to Christians... where do you think the Phelps family got their nice little computers in that computer room? how do you think they got to their pickets? I liken technology to breathing, everyone can utilize it, if you can't breath as wells someone, you can't beat them in a race, and if you use your superior ability to breath to win a fight against someone with asthma it's not your superior ability to breath that is to blame, it is your merciless attitude.
Even if the false practitioners of religion are responsible for more evil in the world, this is all the more reason we need to educate them to a better understanding of the Scriptures in order to put a stop to all this madness once and for all. Wouldn't you agree?
If we got
everyone in the entire world to subscribe to the
exact same belief, then yes, we would all be happy and dandy for a long, long time, but... if this belief was religious... we would also be giving up our ability to freely learn, to conduct research without bias, and to see things unhindered
You're a young person with a lot of life ahead of you. My advice to you is tha you should study the Bible and communal living. You should think about getting in a program like Living Routes.
Well, I hope so! and I wish the same for you!
But as for the bible study... I was raised a Christian and I remember trying very hard to make the whole "feeling god's love" thing to work... but I ditched that for something more substantial, I ditched the bible for something that I could simply look at the bottom of the paper and see where the information came from and how it was collected...
And Living Routes, I think it would be fun... but I am saving up money to study Physics abroad in Austria or Germany someday, I think that it would slightly more productive, but yes... the communal living thing would be educational experience for everyone.
EDIT: Spelling
Edited by josephjah, 09 April 2007 - 09:23 PM.