8th March 2003, 11:57 PM
What I wish was obsolete is the way that religion gets people to absolutely believe in bad ideas and defend them to the death... or close to it. It just isn't good for a major organization like that to be able to indoctrinate generation after generation with their stuff...
I don't want religion to go away. Church isn't inherently bad... its the unthinking attitude that churches seem to generate that is. The problem is that organized religion almost always seems to lead to a organization that has a static, fixed and unchanging doctrine that it makes everyone believe. That is bad...
As for science proving god doesn't exist, of course that isn't possible... you can't prove or disprove something of that nature. Its like if I say that the universe was created 10 seconds ago out of nothing in exactly the state its in now -- you can't disprove it but it can't be proven either... god is sort of like that. A intangible (and almost certainly nonexistant) thing...
Oh, and when I say "I honestly can't understand how people can logically believe in god" I'm just being honest... I really don't understand. I know its just something you have to believe in the absence of real proof ("Miracles"? Don't make me laugh...), but it just doesn't make any logical sense... I don't understand why the human race has always had gods and the like. In ancient times it made more sense -- they didn't know the laws of the universe so making them up was the only way to get answers... I guess that after millenia of that it kind of got burned into our collective psyche or something. It happens... so now, even after we have a lot of proof that many of the basic beliefs of religion aren't exactly accurate, people still believe...
I bet in the future there will still be religion... and as it has in the past it will change with the times, albeit very, very slowly.
Would the world be better off without religion? I honestly don't know... its such a major force that predicting what would happen without it is really tough... and I don't know if it'd lead to more freedom of thought in general or to more anarchy or something without something to give guidance to the people who need it...
I don't want religion to go away. Church isn't inherently bad... its the unthinking attitude that churches seem to generate that is. The problem is that organized religion almost always seems to lead to a organization that has a static, fixed and unchanging doctrine that it makes everyone believe. That is bad...
As for science proving god doesn't exist, of course that isn't possible... you can't prove or disprove something of that nature. Its like if I say that the universe was created 10 seconds ago out of nothing in exactly the state its in now -- you can't disprove it but it can't be proven either... god is sort of like that. A intangible (and almost certainly nonexistant) thing...
Oh, and when I say "I honestly can't understand how people can logically believe in god" I'm just being honest... I really don't understand. I know its just something you have to believe in the absence of real proof ("Miracles"? Don't make me laugh...), but it just doesn't make any logical sense... I don't understand why the human race has always had gods and the like. In ancient times it made more sense -- they didn't know the laws of the universe so making them up was the only way to get answers... I guess that after millenia of that it kind of got burned into our collective psyche or something. It happens... so now, even after we have a lot of proof that many of the basic beliefs of religion aren't exactly accurate, people still believe...
I bet in the future there will still be religion... and as it has in the past it will change with the times, albeit very, very slowly.
Would the world be better off without religion? I honestly don't know... its such a major force that predicting what would happen without it is really tough... and I don't know if it'd lead to more freedom of thought in general or to more anarchy or something without something to give guidance to the people who need it...