On the "Spiritual Left" and Science
I read an interesting article the other day in one of my science magazines. I am used to reading countless articles about how horrible "right wing" Christians are to science and how they must be stopped at any cost. It is pretty scary reading the vehemence with which these scientists write, and I am getting sick of it. (Now, while I think that most
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I love to quote my father when I hear people talk about Organic foods. "What? So the strawberries I've been eating all of my life were inorganic?! I thought they contained carbon!" ;)
Ironically, many Christians hold to many of these beliefs, not realizing their pagan origins.
This, like many other "Christian traditions" (yes, I'm poking at my own Catholic upbringing here) are pagan rooted traditions that most Christians (i.e., Catholics) are completely ignorant of, which makes me wonder how much homage we're really giving to Christ if we've taken these traditions and made them "good" by putting Christ at the center of them? How possible is it to make these practices potentially spiritually crippling to the practicee if taken in the wrong context? I can't propose an answer really, but these are questions I've thought about extensively during my college years having seen people become so distraught over things like loosing their scapulars or their rosaries.
Where did you find this article? I'm interested in reading it myself to actually see something bashing the "spiritual left" also having read my share of bashing the right-wing sects.
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http://www.the-scientist.com/2006/7/1/13/1/
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The Scientist is free to life scientists like ourselves. You might as well get a subscription.
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