Y0da
Well-Known Member
When your life is shit and you can see no logical way to resolve your problems, what harm is there in having a little faith?
Or do you say "Oh well! Science says faith is a misplaced hope, and I don't want to appear foolish to my 'intelligent peers' "
Modern religion is a control mechanism. Was it Karl Marx who said religion is the opiate of the masses?
Everywhere you look, every system of every kind has been designed, constructed and enforced by the few, for the few.
My father was an Old Roman Catholic, daily latin mass, Office of the day. He also had a first class grammar school education, a double degree in French and Russian, spoke 24 languages and was head of his section at the British Library, so I refute the intelligence theory entirely.
He is not the only well educated, highly intelligent believer by far, catholic or otherwise.
It suits the 'scientific' community to encourage secularity, it's how they earn a living.
It suits the Politicians to encourage them because religion unites people and makes them unruly.
And any idiot knows that statistics can be manipulated to read virtually any way the author wants them to.
At the end, I'm not sure that it matters what you have faith in, as long as you have faith in something that offers hope.
If God does exist, He will be the ultimate judge. If he doesn't, then you have lost nothing by believing. You don't have to be a radical fanatic, if you are then it's a personal choice.
Or do you say "Oh well! Science says faith is a misplaced hope, and I don't want to appear foolish to my 'intelligent peers' "
Modern religion is a control mechanism. Was it Karl Marx who said religion is the opiate of the masses?
Everywhere you look, every system of every kind has been designed, constructed and enforced by the few, for the few.
My father was an Old Roman Catholic, daily latin mass, Office of the day. He also had a first class grammar school education, a double degree in French and Russian, spoke 24 languages and was head of his section at the British Library, so I refute the intelligence theory entirely.
He is not the only well educated, highly intelligent believer by far, catholic or otherwise.
It suits the 'scientific' community to encourage secularity, it's how they earn a living.
It suits the Politicians to encourage them because religion unites people and makes them unruly.
And any idiot knows that statistics can be manipulated to read virtually any way the author wants them to.
At the end, I'm not sure that it matters what you have faith in, as long as you have faith in something that offers hope.
If God does exist, He will be the ultimate judge. If he doesn't, then you have lost nothing by believing. You don't have to be a radical fanatic, if you are then it's a personal choice.
