May be my mission here could be to try to bring science-nerds back to religion. If possible. I am somewhat older guy, from Europe. English is not my first language, so excuse occasional stumbling.
I took a quick glance around, and much of what I saw, seemed to be scientificist jargon, agnostic prejudices, cliches, and heavy left-brain thinking. So, I don’t expect much. I could try to explain my pet theories, why we have come to this situation…. the difficulty people face in forming identity in postmodern societies.
However, I would criticize traditional form of religion. There has not been much freedom. There has been too much violence and abuse, so religions have become somewhat distorted. I feel that those who criticize religion (or God, for that matter..) usually fail to see this history of violence.
Why the critics of religion fail, is another matter. Perhaps they lack emotional wisdom. They don’t have enough empathy to see, what it is to live between abuse and fear. Many people blame God, expecting Him to be omnipotent ruler, and humans to be nothing. It is so easy to forget that God gave us the free will.
Some here seem to be asking for proofs. It all seems to be about physical or material proofs. We are looking for footprints, or fingerprints, or maybe we would like to prove Gods existence mathematically. This is the left-brain thinking; it has too many blind spots. Emotions, or human psychology don’t exist for left-brain. Culture, art, creativity, sometimes I even think that biology or human anatomy don’t exist for rationalist people. They seem to live in dead planet, where is no animal life, no green life, only stone, or chemical elements in periodical table. Even this seems not to be enough for science-people, they want get still more primitive, they wish to reduce existence to cosmological questions of Big Bang, and origin of Universe. But when you question them about origin of hate, love, fear, anxiety, joy, they say that its all superstition, or not essential.
I think also, that Science itself is a pseudoscience. Often scientists are dishonest. They may falsify the results. or they may have to work under pressure. Questions of ethics or moral are often pushed aside. There is always the question of money. Speaking the truth would mean ruining their career, and often scientists seem to lack right-brain wisdom. Often the questions in themselves are wrong, and science goes to wrong track, and gets stuck in conformity and conventions. Thats why I believe science can not be an answer. It is far too unreliable.
I approach these things as someone who has practiced religion all his life. For most part, I have felt religion to be too irreligious - that is, not enough religious. The fact is, that most organized religions are agnostic. They have persecuted the gnostic elements. The religious dogma is often directed against the religious experience. Behind the humble facade, religions are often anti-religions. Most of their energy has gone into persecutions, witch-hunts and inner putsch, its the sad reality, and it continues to be. People in religious groups face enormous peer-pressure, and possibility in free thinking is not given. As such, this does not prove anything for or against God. It just shows how we humans are.
I hope to discuss these questions and prove my points, as freedom of inquiry seems to be encouraged here. Do PM me, if you wish ask something.
