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Re: The Black Stone of Allah [Re: Kid_Orgo]
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Maybe not you specifically but there sure are a lot of people who treat science like a religion.
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A lot of people fail to recognize that science and even materialism are just as much religions as christianity or islam
Yeah, I can see how an evidence-based system of knowledge is the same as a random mish mash of self-contradicting made up shit that leads to such gems as "marijuana is evel" (even though it was ostensibly created by god) and suicide jihad is god's will.
Sure, exactly the same, science and religion.
Someone else put it succinctly: "Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into building".
Yep, exactly the same.
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An issue that seems to be skirted here is the important distinction between 'respect' and 'tolerance'. Respect is something that must be earned, the religion must impress or woo me in some way to earn my respect. Tolerance on the other hand is given away as a default in the interest of having peace and perhaps understanding.
Praying to a rock does not in anyway earn my respect, I do not respect Islam. But I do tolerate it (to some extent).
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Maybe not you specifically but there sure are a lot of people who treat science like a religion.
Yea, people who trash science and wish that their mysticism was elevated to a higher status. Science is not a religion, not even close.
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Re: The Black Stone of Allah [Re: Diploid]
#14197143 - 03/28/11 10:42 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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"Civilized" society is a hopeful belief and protest that science, money, and goods make man count for more than any other animal.
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Diploid said: A lot of people fail to recognize that science and even materialism are just as much religions as christianity or islam
Yeah, I can see how an evidence-based system of knowledge is the same as a random mish mash of self-contradicting made up shit that leads to such gems as "marijuana is evel" (even though it was ostensibly created by god) and suicide jihad is god's will.
Sure, exactly the same, science and religion.
it's faith in a system. Just because it's evidence based doesn't make any less "religious," hell the soviet union was just as religious.
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Someone else put it succinctly: "Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into building".
Yep, exactly the same. 

Are you really going to try and argue that no one has used knowledge gained from the scientific fields for evil?
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it's faith in a system.
That is not sufficient for it to be a religion.
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Re: The Black Stone of Allah [Re: DieCommie]
#14197161 - 03/28/11 10:46 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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so what is then?
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You want me to tell you what the definition of religion is? You can look that up yourself.
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Re: The Black Stone of Allah [Re: DieCommie]
#14197181 - 03/28/11 10:51 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Religion is a cultural system that creates powerful and long-lasting meaning, by establishing symbols that relate humanity to beliefs and values.[1] Many religions have narratives, symbols, traditions and sacred histories that are intended to give meaning to life or to explain the origin of life or the universe... The word religion is sometimes used interchangeably with faith or belief system, but religion differs from private belief in that it has a public aspect
Do you object to that?
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It depends on how you are going to interpret and apply it. I think that is a fairly weak (ie., broad) definition. But still, it does not negate my two statements that science is not a religion and faith is not sufficient to being a religion.
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Re: The Black Stone of Allah [Re: DieCommie]
#14197248 - 03/28/11 11:06 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Okay, so how does it not meet those standards?
Science establishes symbols that relate humanity to beliefs and values. It has narratives and traditions, and a cosmology. It is based on faith, and it is public.
I feel like you don't want to call science a religion because it happens to be successful, is this true?
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It does not establish symbols that relate humanity to beliefs and values, it does not have narratives and traditions, it is not based on faith.
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I feel like you don't want to call science a religion because it happens to be successful, is this true?
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Re: The Black Stone of Allah [Re: DieCommie]
#14197259 - 03/28/11 11:10 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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It tells a specific history of the universe, it uses a somewhat sacrosanct method, it is indeed based on faith (in the method).
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Science is the method and the models
There's a method called "science?"
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There's a method called "science?"
That's facetious.
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Science is the method and the models
There's a method called "science?"
Yes.
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Age_of_Reflection said: What religion would that be? Please don't say scientology....
The black stone of Allah is a key component of Buddhism.
WTF?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Stone
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