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swimmer963

Reading material

May 05, 2010 08:01

I was reading Billy Graham yesterday. As in the evangelical Christian Billy Graham. It was one of the books I borrowed from my friend's overflowing bookshelf. And although I enjoyed the first few chapters, and some of his points resonated with me, I found that his ideas about science kept getting in the way.

Billy Graham does NOT approve of science ( Read more... )

science, god, billy graham, faith, religion, metaphors, electromagnetism

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dxmachina1111 May 6 2010, 00:08:07 UTC

Never having read Billy Graham, I have to say that I'm not surprised in the least that his attitude toward science should be so . . . backward? Is that the word? Anyway, I agree that mainstream Christianity's positions on science are unfortunately, unnecessarily antagonistic, & it is hard for me to see anything but ignorance behind them ( ... )

Wow! I hadn't looked at it that way swimmer963 May 6 2010, 00:48:33 UTC

I think that's a really interesting point... And yeah, to the degree that we as a species have written books about God and made elaborate theologies, we do have concepts that we've "invented". All religions have certain characteristics in common, but the ones that are different must be in some way arbitrary, things that we've "made up" as metaphors so we don't drown in confusion about what God is/isn't. Trinity is an example. Christianity has a trinity (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) and so does Hinduism (Brahma the creator-figure, Vishnu the preserver/sustainer, Shiva the destroyer ( ... )