religion/science

[Izzy]

Re: religion/science

My parents tried to raise my religiously. In about 2nd or 3rd grade I realized it was bs so I never paid attention from then on in sunday school. By the time they wanted me to do a confirmation I just told them no. They made me tell the rabbi that I was going to quit. So I did, and that was that. Never went back.

[MrGiggles]

Re: religion/science

My parents tried to raise my religiously. In about 2nd or 3rd grade I realized it was bs so I never paid attention from then on in sunday school. By the time they wanted me to do a confirmation I just told them no. They made me tell the rabbi that I was going to quit. So I did, and that was that. Never went back.

me 2 ^5

My Dad is pretty religious and an obnoxious family values hardliner to boot which really turned me off of church. He spent a ton of time and effort trying to get me to go through confirmation, but he finally gave up. For my next birthday he gave me a piece of rope.

[Afrobean]

Re: religion/science

I also subscribe to Daniel Dennett's theory that religion set the stage for science, because it was the first time we ever sought answers outside our immediate survival problems.

This is right, but along the way, the scientific method was established and used as the measuring stick for FACT. No longer could someone make **** up and say a god did it.

It might have been the seed that led ancient Man down the path toward enlightenment, but it's not a useful tool for examining the World around us anymore.

My Dad is pretty religious and an obnoxious family values hardliner to boot which really turned me off of church. He spent a ton of time and effort trying to get me to go through confirmation, but he finally gave up. For my next birthday he gave me a piece of rope.

Why didn't you strangle him with it?