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"Science provides us with a wonderful narrative as to how [existence] may happen, but theology addresses the meaning of the narrative," said Alexander, director of The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion.
Oy.
I mean really.
Actually, I do think it's entirely possible to have a spiritual focus and to understand and best appreciate reality via that focus. In fact I think having a spiritual practice is a good idea. But personally I also think that theology and religion have as much to do with spirituality as a dead stick in a dry pot have to do with the Brazilian rainforest.
Theology is meaningless. It's just storytelling, and the kinds of stories it tells are always pale echoes of the mind-bending reality. I don't even understand how someone can make a statement like that with a straight face. *sigh*
Oy.
I mean really.
Actually, I do think it's entirely possible to have a spiritual focus and to understand and best appreciate reality via that focus. In fact I think having a spiritual practice is a good idea. But personally I also think that theology and religion have as much to do with spirituality as a dead stick in a dry pot have to do with the Brazilian rainforest.
Theology is meaningless. It's just storytelling, and the kinds of stories it tells are always pale echoes of the mind-bending reality. I don't even understand how someone can make a statement like that with a straight face. *sigh*