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Reason is Faith's Wrecking Ball
There is no interaction between science, faith and reason.
I have yet to fly on a faith-based aircraft or
lived in a faith based house and never will.
Senator Brownback need not worry about a wedge
between faith and reason.
Reason is the wrecking ball against the facade
of faith.
Senator Brownback states "faith seeks to purify
reason". Is this the same kind of purification
that was visited on untold non-believers throughout
the ages? Senator Brownback states
"faith - not science - can help us understand
the breadth of human suffering or the depth of human love."
In reality, it has been faith that has been a
major cause of human suffering and has limited the depth of
human love. For example, the division of India/Pakistan
and homosexuality. The faith-based want
"god's love" and will do whatever needs to be
done to get it ie The Iraq War. Senator Brownback
is right that we are unique but, we are also
the product of random mutations. Mankind is not lessen
by this fact as the senator believes. Senator
Brownback states " the process of creation-and indeed
life today-is sustained by the hand of God".
Again, I have yet to buy food at a faith-based
grocery store. I guess the billion people in the world
without clean drinking water are just suffering
from a lack of faith as opposed to science and technology
that I am exposed to. Senator Brownback
states "I firmly believe that each human person, regardless
of circumstance, was willed into being and made
for a purpose.". I guess the senator wasn't upset
about 9-11 since "god" willed the hijackers into
being and they were made for the purpose of destroying
buildings and killing almost 3000 people in the
process. Of course, the hijackers were people of faith.
I guess this is how faith will purify reason.
This op-ed was just a sad, desperate attempt to marry
reality with fanstay. The truth of the matter
is religion, in general is dying. The more educated people
become, the less that religion is needed. This
fairy tale will be dead one day. That will be okay and
then maybe we can start taking about the real
issues.
Thriller67
PEACE