28 Mar '11 12:36>
Originally posted by greenpawn34First of all I must congratulate you for a very poetic defence of Atheism ever seen by me on this thread or for that matter on Spirituality Forum.
Hi Doward.
OK.
You mentioned Socrates.
Did Socrates not preach that you must question everything.
This eventually led to him being put to death for atheism (questioning
the Gods of his day).
Science has advanced 100 fold since the day of Socrates and yet with
every advancemett the church has tried to stop it.
It banned books, putting t ...[text shortened]... n posted missing.
Perhaps he has fallen through a hole in the ozone layer.
It seems that you are attacking Organised Religion.You are quite right.Organised Religions everywhere ( except Hinduism and Buddhism ) have been responsible for spilling blood of millions etc. How is God to held responsible for what the religious fanatics did ?
Your concept of God appears to me to be some kind of a do-gooder sitting up in the clouds and now neglecting his duties of helping Mankind overcome diseases and calamities like earthquakes and so on. Many people have this kind of primitive concept of God as a sort of ATM machine showering all sorts of goodies on Mankind alone.
Man idealised his concept of God when he was relatively one of the less powerful species on the earth and when the scientific tools that he would eventually develop were not there in all their range etc. But he felt an urge for praying to God-may be out of his fear or ignorance or both- but also from a deep seated feeling that the wondrous world that he was experiencing daily was somebody's Creation. So he thought God was Omniscient,Omnipotent and so on. Nothing wrong in that.
These primitive concepts have not stopped certain philosophers and seers in Hinduism/Buddhism from going further afield. They simply state that we cannot know God by our mental faculties. He/She/It cannot be described. He has to be experienced.
Science has not helped mankind to erase all the diseases and grief on this planet. It is a tool that is limited in its scope and does not answer basic questions like What is Mass,What is Gravity let alone metaphysical questions like What is the nature of Reality,why are the rules of Science are the way they are.
Should we blame Science for not predicting Earthquakes and the Technology-the offspring of Science- for not enabling the survival of people in the quake affected region ? My friend.look inside for your answers.