re: #216 shortshrift

I agree. How can a rational individual both accept and deny dogma? The argument that science and religion fulfill different “needs”, is therapy-talk.
It means that rationality is put aside whenever “spiritual” needs demand it.

My religion has no dogma that states that scientific discoveries be ignored or invalidated. Neither do many others, including branches of Christianity.

(OK, granted, Judaism hardly even has a dogma, we’re more about the praxis, but you see what I mean.)