“what is the point of religion in a modern scientific world?”


	“what is the point of religion in a modern scientific world?”

jimbo1000

1-28-2009 4:00 PM

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jimbo1000 says:

there is no dispute between science and religion. Well that's my view anyway. From a Texan's blog

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1-29-2009 11:07 AM

Kreuzberg-Jakob

qorr.: ... between science and christianity !
Sure is no religion really scientific. But Buddhism and even Islam says, that humans shall study sciences to get knowledge.

1-29-2009 12:54 PM

boniface

I've always thought of science as a "technical piece of writing" describing life and religion as "poetry" describing life. Two very different approaches. The conflict comes in when a religion claims "technical or historical" validity. It just doesn't work.

1-29-2009 12:59 PM

jimbo1000

agreed boniface

1-31-2009 11:04 AM

JohnWaterman

I think this clip is about spirituality rather than religion. I learned Buddhist meditation 30 years ago (anapanasati, vipassana and metta mostly (google if interested)). I am now and was then an atheist; I have absolutely no belief in gods, souls, fairies etc but still meditate daily. For me this helps to

answers questions like “how do I
live with the anxiety of knowing that I am going to die?

without the need for religion.

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