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Originally Posted by The Fonz
Originally Posted by TSXCman
This may come back in an extreme manner, but has anyone else ever found that faith is a way to be lazy about seeking an explanation? Like a way to give comfort about giving up. find it to be extremely ignorant.
"God did it" is not an answer. With time, everything can be explained with science.
The day we stop searching for answers is the day we stop moving forward as a society, IMO.
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This is probably the reason why I have never officially been affiliated with any religion. In the end, I'm simply ok with saying "I don't know" when dealing with the big questions of the universe and life, but to put a finite explanation on the infinite is just ridiculous.
I've had conversations with my brother about this very subject (my brother is a born-again christian) and he always tells me that nobody should claim to have finite ideas of god since he is infinite. It's the awareness of just how infinite everything is that gives him proof that god exists in the first place, and the fact there seems to be some order in the chaos that allows for life.
The problem comes whenever we talk about the bible because he still lives by it even though he knows it is written by men who are fallible and likely to have some sort of political agenda at the time. No matter what he has said, logically you can't convince me that is the "word of god".
Anyway, the thing is, the universe is a completely overwhelming and scary place for the average mortal being, so having a coping system to deal with just how vast and impossible it all seems is a good thing for the human psyche. I love science and everything that it brings to the table, but even when you get into the theoretical science that tries to explain how the universe was created, currently works, and will eventually expire, it's little more than fantastic imaginations and things that seem like magic (dark matter? Invisible mass that exists to take up space and create gravity and the framework of galaxies...unless of course our math is wrong
), well how is that any better than some of the stories in the bible trying to explain how humanity got to where it is today?
Nope, as far as I can see, it's really just whatever ridiculous explanation you're most comfortable with because nobody really has the answer; and if they tell you they do, they're selling you something.
Me, I will go on being uncomfortable with not knowing.
I will go on being excited for every new discovery that science brings to our understanding of the universe.
I will continue to use my judeo-christian ethics and morals to navigate my way through relationships with other humans and this planet.
I will use my daoist and buddhist philosophical leanings to help explain and deal with my existential dilemmas.
And, I will strive to be happy in the face of everything that tries to bring me down in this world.
I leave you with Patton talking about "sky cake". Enjoy
