Friday, February 15, 2008

Religion akin to Science

Religion is all about interpretation.
And religion gives one the freedom to 'interpret' it the way one deems fit.

I guess the rise of fanaticism and fundamentalism is on account of this 'mis-interpretation'.

I am not given to condemning humans of a particular religious group on the basis of the misinterpretation of a few from the very same group.

It would be akin to saying we should not be using nuclear fission as it yielded nuclear bomb. But nuclear fission also yields power as in electric power generation.

So religion like science can be misused as well as properly used.

Given this, Dawkins in his book 'The God Delusion' is merely looking at converting people from one religion to another. His afore critique and work being that of converting one from Christianity to that of science.

How does it really help? I don't know, somehow maybe they will be more peace loving or less animosity among fellow humans, but the history of science especially that of nuclear fission does not say so. So in retro affect Dawkins is merely converting humans from one religion to another.
He claims his religion to be one that of science.
But frankly he is back at square one.

No religion is also a religion.

We can't condemn humans based on religious misinterpretation.
Beware of the fanatic. The religious or the scientific.
When he is so sure he is right, he is evidently wrong.

So what would be way ahead, well evidently let free-will take its course.

It is amazing to note that the US is based on a secular constitution however there are more Christians in US than in UK, where in stark contrast the constitution is actually Christian.
Maybe that is what we call 'providence'.

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