Pope Visits

Pope Benedict XVI is visiting America in hope he can strengthen the waning Christian faith in America.

He spoke against bishops and priests that have helped damage the reputation of the Christian religion because of their many cases of child molestation, that have become widely publicized.

Those atrocities have done heavy duty damage to religion and now it is probably harder than ever to convince someone that religion is the way to go.

The world is becoming more and more non-secular and religion is being tampered with and not practiced the way the text it is derived from says it should be.

Of coarse not all priests and bishops are child molesters, but the few that got caught have done irreparable damage to both the religion and their victims.

Similarly in Islam, terrorists have tarnished the religion's image in most of the western world, that now anytime the word Muslim arises it is almost always accompanied by radicals or terrorists.

I predict that situations will only get worse, and that for many people Science is the new religion.

What is interesting however, is that in all three main religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the end of the world will come when faith is weak amongst the people. The faith is getting weaker all across the globe.

So is the end near? No way to find out but wait.

Can religion stand up to the progress of science?

Can religion stand up to the progress of science?

This question was the main topic of an interesting online article I found about the science and religion debate.

If you type science vs. religion in Google you get 25,700,000 results. So it is unarguably a hot debate.

The article argued that science has moved at an incredibly fast rate in the last two hundred years. It has put a grasp and quantified many of the things that religion explained for previous generations.

However, it also mentions the multiverse hypothesis in cosmology speculates that ours may be but one in a cascade of universes, suddenly bettering the odds that life could have cropped up here accidentally, without divine intervention.

However, religion depends on faith. And although it is a perfect system for a harmouniously functioning society when practiced correctly, it is in essence not logical that God said let there be light and everything happened.

However, modern humans depend too much on proof and support and sourcing and less so on the power of faith.

I truly believe that religion is dwindling in modern societies and the emphasis on science, logic and proof is gaining momentum. What will come for the future in religion is uncertain.

Only time will tell.

Recommended book

I recently read Angels and Demons by Dan Brown, who gained much of his fame with his contreversial Da Vinci Code.

It has many themes about the strong and constant battle between science and religion.

It is an interesting fast read, and I recommened it to anyone interested in the intertwining of science and religion.

More Religious Rambling

Religion could be thought of in many ways depending on what lens it is being looked at.

It could be a mass control system, or a system of uni-formal harmony. It could teach you to love but manipulate you to hate. It can teach you patience but can make you impatient.

The problem I see in all major worldly religions is that they claim to be correct. Their rule, their view, their perspective trumps all other religions.

This is a seed for conflict as it destroys the pure form of religion which teaches insatiable love. For those of the same faith and those of different ones. But lately it seems religions are causing more problems than not.

They are giving reason for people to differentiate and alienate others. They are used to excuse violence and other inexcusable things.

Thoughts about Religion

Religion in a sense is a form of mass control. Get a bunch of people believing the same thing and you have a uniform ideology born. People have a way to resolve problems, a uniform way to get around the usual problems in life, like getting married, resolving fueds and so on and so forth.

To me, religion in text and its pure form, is a peace loving way for people to get along harmoniously.

However, throughout most of human history religion has caused more problems I would argue than peace. It gave a reason for people to say they are from this certain religion, who's views and beliefs trump another persons religion. Mine is better than yours. Mine is the truth. Mine is right.

But all religions teach tolerance, compassion, and love to other humans. We seem to forget that in modern day religion. Religion has been manipulated to fit agenda's, to justify killing and hate and have diverted completely from the original and pure form of religion.

Evolution

An interesting topic that has rocked both the scientific and the religious world is Darwin's theory of evolution. In maintaining my theme about religion and science co-existing and complementing each other I would like to raise a certain point.

Now most religious people believe evolution contradicts religion and therefore cannot exist. While most scientists would agree that the evolution is a very solid theory, and therefore it is truth.

I agree with both sides, and although that may seem hard to justify here is my explanation.

To me evolution is God's mechanism of allowing species to change in order to survive. Everything around us, is held together by a perfect balance. The universe, planetary orbits, everything is maintained through this perfect scientific equation. Now this equation is what people study and label as science. It has always been existent from day one. Gravity did not start existing when Newton discovered it, rather it has always been there and Newton just labeled this ever existing force.

My argument here is that science is the study of Gods perfect equation.

Science and Religion

Science and Religion are not polar opposites. Rather, they are both branches of the same tree growing towards the same light. The light of wisdom, universal understanding and the most luminous of all lights: the light of truth.

Thousands of humans have spent their lives picking or choosing which branch they belong too, failing to realize, in my opinion, that all branches in a tree grow from the same seed and belong to the same trunk.

Science and Religion are both ways of humans to explain their existence...because we seem to have an innate fear of uncertainty. Religion tells you the story of creation, science tells you the story of the big bang. Both in attempts to explain truth and create a solid understanding of what we know as reality.

And although religion and science are not exact replicas of each other and tend to differ in their details of what reality is, they are both methods of explaining what truth is. And even though they take different roads when explaining....the roads lead to the same destination: TRUTH.