Legacy

[hedjie]

It's been just over a year since Dad died, and I've been reflecting on his influence upon me. I found that I couldn't quite verbalize it beyond "Question everything and keep your bullshit detector intact." Science. Math. Hard, quantifiable data. The knowing. Certainty

Comments

[piemancer]

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Galileo Galilei

[amimental]

I have yet to see proof that god exists.

[amimental]

And while looking for a quote I can't quite remember, I came across this one that really says it all...

You know your god is man-made when he hates all the same people you do.

Science and Religion

[kingyoco]

I am a self professed religious person, and I agree with everything you just said.
I think the quote would read better “Knowing God is knowing the answer, knowing the answer is knowing God.” Aren’t science and religion both trying to gain a better understanding of God and God’s creation? One from the top down and one from the bottom up? If so, then science and religion have no choice but to agree, we can’t know God’s creation by dismissing scientific fact. In the end, we must constantly question both science and religion, constantly seeking truth, but never taking the answers at face value. Facts can be interpreted incorrectly, and religious interpretation can be wrong (often/always). It is only through constant self assessment that we can hope to find Truth… or God for that matter…

Also, I have always had an issue with “Jesus take the wheel”. I much prefer “Trust in God, but tie your camel”

-Emlin Thanatos