| 1. | Kego | Sun Feb 17, 2008 @ 11:05AM |
The quandary with faith vs. logic is that faith is blind, while logic must be seen. Faith says you must disprove it, while logic says you must prove it. By default, Faith is the easy way out, no work involved, just blindly believe what you are told, unless unequivocally proven otherwise. With logic, it must be unequivocally proven first before it is accepted.
There are plenty of things that we determine to be truths by logic – the grass is green, the sky is blue, the earth rotates around the sun, etc. Here logic is accepted by almost everyone worldwide. But when it comes to religion, logic is amazingly thrown out the window – replaced with ‘blind faith’. As we advance more in technology and science world wide, logic starts to bleed into the boundaries of faith. And while faith does require its followers to be blind, the inevitability of logic will eventually supersede over the masses – something that a single religion will never be able to do.
It is only a matter of time before science disproves most of what faith requires us to blindly believe. There are always those that will fight it kicking and screaming till the end, but I will be inevitable. I always laugh at how religious organization play ‘catch up’ trying explain why scientific evidence starts to points to the contrary of what their holy books say. How now, for instance, Christian institutions depict Adam and Eve in the Holy Garden with a Tyrannosaurs Rex behind them (I thought it was a lion and a lamb?).
Ignorance is the companion to blind faith, and as we as a people world wide become less ignorant and more educated, religion will falter more and more. This is why, in my humble opinion, extremist religious organizations resort to terror and killing – to cripple order and civility and replace it with chaos and fear is to keep the people ignorant. This is the only way to keep religion alive.
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