Religion of opposition

[redwoodpecker]

I had a discussion the other day regarding the nature of religion from a philosophical standpoint.  Religion in this case was defined as a belief that something was wrong with the world, or humanity, and that a solution is required.  The solution was defined as the religious ultimate.

That is to say for example that for catholics the problem with

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[laviemoderne]

No, I read it and understood it. I'm just reacting to my experiences with similar things in response mostly to, "... would sometimes be presented with the argument that Atheism is a religion as well, which I found to be profoundly stupid. It would in fact, and I know this seems out of character, profoundly piss me off." I wasn't infering that atheism is a science or related to science, I was just using it as an example to cite the abusirdity, IMO, such arguements: I believe in rational thinking, I belive that science is rational, and I believe that science is a better way to explain things than religion. SOME people would have tried to argue to me that because I belive in science that because I am prescribing to a "belief system" that it is more or less a substitute for or perhaps a de facto religion. Science=religion=PREPOSTEROUS! That got me thinking about other stupid arguements that I've gotten into with religious people that believe that all morality and what not comes from religion and that with out religion we couldn't have moral thoughts, words, deeds, actions etc. That line of thinking is absolutley ludicrous as far as I'm concearned.

I find it interesting the way that you're considering atheism from a scientific standpoint- ie science cannot prove the existance of god one way or another, and that is true- there is no clear answer scientific or otherwise. Conversely, I've had people present the exact same arguement to me from the other side. Life is so complex as codified in DNA and subatomic particles, etc that it couldn't /possibly/ be accidental and therefore MUST be divine design. Frankly, I don't understand why people can't just accept that there is no reason but accidental coincidence. I guess that it's fear of mortality and the curiosity of human nature needing to explain their surroundings. It's all just a bunch of bs to me.

So yeah, I read and understood. I just get P/Oed by religion.--///END RANT///-------------------------------