"The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands." (Psalm 19:1)
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Jesus brought NO changes to the OT view of religion and God ??snorider wrote:Science allows us to question everything, it changes.
Religion is static, it does not allow change.
Prove me wrong?
Jordan
Lol at religion only causing conflicts. Religion helped lay the foundations for science itself. The great ancient philosophers and scientists (like Aristotle, for example) believed in the concept of God and employed it at the heart of their philosophies. Some of the greatest scientific minds of the last thousand years have been monks, bishops, theologians, etc. The idea of a wise and constant God as the creator and sustainer of the universe was fundamental to the development of science as we know it today.snorider wrote: What has religion done in the last thousand years to progress the human race?
What has Science done to progress the human race?
Think about that.
Science saves lives, it flies us to the moon.
Religion causes conflicts between nations and flies us into buildings.
One last video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsAZSz2Yb_8 - Eviden3nc3
Thanks and love,
Jordan
Religion is static, it does not allow change.
snorider wrote:My point is, the bible cannot be changed or challenged.
What about that statement? Does science allow us to question whether or not science questions everything?snorider wrote:Science allows us to question everything
Second, the bible's teachings have been challenged over the centuries, many times from within, does the reformation mean anything to you?Moreover, the chief complaint against religion -- that it is history's prime instigator of intergroup conflict -- does not withstand scrutiny. Religious issues motivate only a small minority of recorded wars. The Encyclopedia of Wars surveyed 1,763 violent conflicts across history; only 123 (7 percent) were religious. A BBC-sponsored "God and War" audit, which evaluated major conflicts over 3,500 years and rated them on a 0-to-5 scale for religious motivation (Punic Wars = 0, Crusades = 5), found that more than 60 percent had no religious motivation. Less than 7 percent earned a rating greater than 3. There was little religious motivation for the internecine Russian and Chinese conflicts or the world wars responsible for history's most lethal century of international bloodshed.
Indeed, inclusive concepts such as "humanity" arguably emerged with the rise of universal religions. Sociologist Rodney Stark reveals that early Christianity became the Roman Empire's majority religion not through conquest, but through a social process grounded in trust. Repeated acts of altruism, such as caring for non-Christians during epidemics, facilitated the expansion of social networks that were invested in the religion. Likewise, studies by behavioral economist Joseph Henrich and colleagues on contemporary foragers, farmers, and herders show that professing a world religion is correlated with greater fairness toward passing strangers. This research helps explain what's going on in sub-Saharan Africa, where Islam is spreading rapidly. In Rwanda, for example, people began converting to Islam in droves after Muslims systematically risked their lives to protect Christians and animists from genocide when few others cared.
snorider wrote: Prove me wrong?
Jordan
Why am I unable to find this published anywhere other than the personal profiles of those that wrote it? Why isn't it published in anything of credibility?PaulSacramento wrote:First off, the whole "religion causes conflicts: has been shown to be incorrect even by atheists !
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2 ... r?page=0,2Second, the bible's teachings have been challenged over the centuries, many times from within, does the reformation mean anything to you?Moreover, the chief complaint against religion -- that it is history's prime instigator of intergroup conflict -- does not withstand scrutiny. Religious issues motivate only a small minority of recorded wars. The Encyclopedia of Wars surveyed 1,763 violent conflicts across history; only 123 (7 percent) were religious. A BBC-sponsored "God and War" audit, which evaluated major conflicts over 3,500 years and rated them on a 0-to-5 scale for religious motivation (Punic Wars = 0, Crusades = 5), found that more than 60 percent had no religious motivation. Less than 7 percent earned a rating greater than 3. There was little religious motivation for the internecine Russian and Chinese conflicts or the world wars responsible for history's most lethal century of international bloodshed.
Indeed, inclusive concepts such as "humanity" arguably emerged with the rise of universal religions. Sociologist Rodney Stark reveals that early Christianity became the Roman Empire's majority religion not through conquest, but through a social process grounded in trust. Repeated acts of altruism, such as caring for non-Christians during epidemics, facilitated the expansion of social networks that were invested in the religion. Likewise, studies by behavioral economist Joseph Henrich and colleagues on contemporary foragers, farmers, and herders show that professing a world religion is correlated with greater fairness toward passing strangers. This research helps explain what's going on in sub-Saharan Africa, where Islam is spreading rapidly. In Rwanda, for example, people began converting to Islam in droves after Muslims systematically risked their lives to protect Christians and animists from genocide when few others cared.
I would like you to stop paying your electric bill, when your lights go out due to non payment, sit in your room, do not contact anyone or do anything other than pray until the power to comes back on. When that happens come back here and post.
snorider wrote:Science allows us to question everything, it changes.
Religion is static, it does not allow change.
Prove me wrong?
Jordan