re: #413 theheat

Religion is a personal thing. Go at it with all your heart, no one is telling you that you can’t. But don’t expect your beliefs to be accepted as science, or to replace science. If that offends you, it’s pretty obvious you want everyone to think exactly as you do..

Religion is at the historic foundation of all cultures, all morality and all law… for better or worse. Religion emerges from the basic human condition and human social interaction. I’m sorry but facts are facts. It is only in the last few centuries that Christianity has humane-ized culture enough so we can be less driven by the irrational. Now some religions are more primitive than others. And obviously some religions are more humane than others but we might very well have no modern rationality and modern science or modern human rights if it were not for the Gregory Popes and the Western Church’s investment in basic science and the recovery of Classical Greek and Aristotelean thinking. Western Christianity gave the world Aquinas. Islam gave the world Al Ghazali.