Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2013 7:32 pm
Tlaceceyaya wrote:Wolfmanne wrote:I honestly don't know. I just believe in the Catholic Bible as the most accurate religious view of the world, but I recognise that even so there are significant faults in it and I believe that Science, to the best of it's ability, can not only disprove the flaws in it, but also mend them. The Bible is like a jar that has been smashed into the tiniest pieces, and Science to me is like duct tape or superglue. Because they are so tiny, we'll probably never fully fix it, but with duct tape and superglue we can fix it to the best of our ability.
Why not just build a new jar rather than repair one that, when it was not broken, still worked poorly anyways?
Because I really like that jar. Sure, it wasn't great, but it did hold some flowers that I greatly liked.
In a real world concept, my Mum raised me as a Christian until she converted to Islam. I attended a Catholic Primary School. I like the idea that there is a God and a Heaven. I almost became Atheist, but I just couldn't leave it all behind. I couldn't deny the existence of God. I was a Catholic Agnostic a few years ago, but then I had a second epiphany and now I'm a theist again. I just can't leave faith behind, faith to me important, a belief in at least something is important, no matter what religion it is. I find secular humanism to be an acceptable belief. At least you're believing in something; you believe in social justice and ethics, something that most religions, whether it's Abrahamic, Eastern or otherwise something else, advocates.