How many people have actually lost all religion connection? Every day I see more and more people give up the cross for the sanity and clarity of mind given by the scientific community. But are the answers given by astrophysicists any clearer then the answers given by the church? Or are we just so cynical that we would give in to any excuse to defy the church?
Personally I'm a Jew by birth and a Deist by nature, but I was wondering what other people's ideas on God Vs. Science and it's implications in modern society/literature.
In this modern age of nuclear proliferation, steroid induced heroism, and "free" isn't free life-lessons, have we been spoon fed such cynicism that we automatically deny anything that cannot be immediately handed to us and/or proven by empirical evidence?
Maybe that's the price we pay for scientific advancements. A loss of innocence. But what are the implications of this loss? Obviously no more religion. Which, in some regards I agree with, but in the process, by gaining the truth, we lose a lot more. Think about all the great thinks that have come about because of religion? Art, literature, political ideology.
As my friend reminded me, Jesus is the one who said "Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, and unto God that which is God's". That is a SECULAR idea created by a RELIGIOUS leader. Albeit, I don't buy the whole "Jesus is the son of God" theory since I'm a Jew, but that doesn't mean I don't recognize the necessity of this thought for democracy to even EXIST.
Even Sir Issac Newton would have had no place in a purely secular society because he was originally a religious scholor before he became the founding pilalr of Physics.
Great works of art (of any form) would have been lost, even art inspired by the ABSENCE of god still gained influence through the theory of God as a form.
So now we enter a world of anarchy, where actions are only deemed by what you get caught for because morality has no place in a world of truth. A world deprived of any art except that which reflected the cold hard truth of reality, because imagination was stamped out long ago.
So forget about religion leading people astray, causing them to turn a blind eye to the truth, because we don't even know what the truth is. All the theories put forth by the leading philosophers, chemists, and astrophysicists can't even come up with a theory any more viable the Intelligent Design. Because God=0 according to them doesn't mean the alternative is automatically right. God=0 and Science=0 means they're both equally as feasible as the other.
I'm, personally, a Deist because I believe in a creator but I think he has no place in our daily lives and affairs. How can you look around to view the world around you as mere happenstance? It is a possibility, but that possibility is so slim that any statistician would have given up any hope on this world could be created except for the fact that they see that it was.
Which leads me again to ask, do we turn so readily for science for answers to fall back on, the way we used to fall back on the church for every answer? Maybe it's a simple transfer of power, and is it up to anyone other then the individual to decide what is TRUTH?
And if the truth is more depriving then enlightening, would humankind be better off living in ignorance?
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