To presume to know anything about the universe is an affront to the Lord, when our comprehensive capacities are so limited in this regard, and presumably the Lord made everything and thus knows everything.
To presume that we know -better- than the Lord is a far graver affront, but it happens every day that an evangelical Christian challenges solid scientific findings (and science is, if nothing else, the quest to discover exactly what this universe is that the Lord made, and the categorization and organization of what we DO know about the way the Lord made things).
To presume that there is, indeed, specifically a Lord is an affront to the Creator, as we have no idea who or what created this universe beyond the many and varied holy scriptures of many and varied religions, and the (to me) far more exciting and far younger field of quantum physics.
Religion is rife with offense, either to the religious, or those who are not. Indeed, to presume that whatever created this vast, possibly infinite universe of which we are a part directly gives a damn about any one of our football games or corporate dinners, to presume that we are so universally relevant as to believe that the cadence of celestia directly informs whether we will "find love" this week or win the lottery, is an expression of such repugnant self importance that it is surely an affront to any being that created us in its own image.
To presume that we know -better- than the Lord is a far graver affront, but it happens every day that an evangelical Christian challenges solid scientific findings (and science is, if nothing else, the quest to discover exactly what this universe is that the Lord made, and the categorization and organization of what we DO know about the way the Lord made things).
To presume that there is, indeed, specifically a Lord is an affront to the Creator, as we have no idea who or what created this universe beyond the many and varied holy scriptures of many and varied religions, and the (to me) far more exciting and far younger field of quantum physics.
Religion is rife with offense, either to the religious, or those who are not. Indeed, to presume that whatever created this vast, possibly infinite universe of which we are a part directly gives a damn about any one of our football games or corporate dinners, to presume that we are so universally relevant as to believe that the cadence of celestia directly informs whether we will "find love" this week or win the lottery, is an expression of such repugnant self importance that it is surely an affront to any being that created us in its own image.
But there you are.
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