Religion teaches me how to get along in life. It teaches me to forgive myself for stupid things that I have done. It teaches me to forgive others for stupid things that they have done. It teaches me to be a better person today than I was yesterday.
Religion gets a bad wrap.
I think that people misunderstand it. Certainly we misunderstand other people's religion.
Odly, we seem to get along well with people who's religious views mirror our own. I feel uncomfortable around people who are too 'bible-bangerish' and, I feel uncomfortable around people who disclaim religion.
While my personal religious beliefes closely mirror the Triune God of the ELCA Lutheran persuasion, I certainly have respect for people of other religoins. I think that great men have come out of Christian, Jewish, Budist and Muslim traditions.
It facinates me that many world conflicts happen around fractures of believe systems. Our current world struggles could be characterized as Christian vs Muslim. Certainly the crusaides fit into that cetegory.
I hope that my religious believes are ok with you. The odds are that your religious beliefes are ok with me. Now, if your religion is telling you that it is ok to kill a person of a different tradition - then we will have issues getting along.
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
On Science
Science isn't wrong.
Mankind's understanding of our world has changed and evolved over time. Living in 2008 gives us many thousands of years of experience and observations to base our current ideas uppon.
We don't have the whole place figured out yet, but we are getting there. Just a couple of generations ago the idea of walking on the moon was science fiction. Today the idea of walking on Mars seems plausable.
Generations ago mankind didn't understand the shape of the earth, it's role in our solar system, or our place in the universe.
A generation ago medical science was light years behind where we are today. My father talks of the days before cutting operations when it was routine to die from things like apendicitis.
No one person seems to be able to hold all of the current scientific knowledge in his head. And, often a scientist seems to be more right than wrong, but never does he seem to be 100% right nor 100% wrong. Future scientists will pick up his work, prove the places he was right, and spend time working on places he was wrong. Along the way we get a better and better view of our world.
Peace,
Randy S.
Mankind's understanding of our world has changed and evolved over time. Living in 2008 gives us many thousands of years of experience and observations to base our current ideas uppon.
We don't have the whole place figured out yet, but we are getting there. Just a couple of generations ago the idea of walking on the moon was science fiction. Today the idea of walking on Mars seems plausable.
Generations ago mankind didn't understand the shape of the earth, it's role in our solar system, or our place in the universe.
A generation ago medical science was light years behind where we are today. My father talks of the days before cutting operations when it was routine to die from things like apendicitis.
No one person seems to be able to hold all of the current scientific knowledge in his head. And, often a scientist seems to be more right than wrong, but never does he seem to be 100% right nor 100% wrong. Future scientists will pick up his work, prove the places he was right, and spend time working on places he was wrong. Along the way we get a better and better view of our world.
Peace,
Randy S.
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