Oh, wow. And, oh my.

[but_the_sea]

To those who commented on my "No Connection" journal entry, thank you, from the bottom of my heart. I'm going to hold off on replying, because I want to actually think about what has been said, first. But ... wow. Y'all are The. Best. Evah. *warm hugs

Comments

[winterbadger]

I think it's very difficult for fundamentalists of any religion to handle science well, because (a) it is a separate source of authority and (b) it is complex and changing. Fundamentalists, by definition, crave unitary auhtority and a simpl(istic) credo. If it isn't simple and straightforward, it becomes confusing and requires the intervention of the human mind to think, to udnerstand, and to explain. And that's just WRONG! God is the only person who is smart enough to understand God; humans shouldn't presume to do that. God said exactly what He wanted humans to hear, and we should read that and accept it just as written. Questions are the devil's tools, and attempts to deconstruct, apprehend subleties/nuances/metaphors in scripture are attempts to put a human construction on God's word. And science is twice as bad, because it has all the same d*mn questions, and it sets itself up as being able to answer things that only God can know, as being able to challenge Scripture ("The Sun doesn't stand still, because the Sun doesn't revolve around the Earth; the Earth revolves around the Sun" Heresy!)

Sorry, just got on a roll...