God and Religion

[anon10396289]

From the LC thread:

@clovis8

This is simply wrong. We do know. If by know you mean we’ve applied that same standards we use to know anything.

@anon10396289

Religion isn’t scientific and shouldn’t be approached as such. It’s a combination of self-help, community, practical ethics and philosophy, and a road map for living your life. As well as fulfilling a spiritual need that seems to be deep-seated and innate in humans. It’s fine if it doesn’t work for you but saying that religion is wrong because SCIENCE is missing the point incredibly.

@cassette

No, religion without god is just philosophy. Keed is missing the point (probably intentionally) that science can investigate religion because religion is grounded in a claim about existence, God’s existence.

@anon10396289

No, I’m saying that using science to investigate religion is missing the point. Religion isn’t about explaining the world in a rigorous and scientific way, it’s about finding meaning and community and self-help and direction. Is it a coincidence that basically every society has had religion and spirituality as an important part of its culture? The religious impulse seems to be an innate feature of humans. And science simply isn’t competition for religion – it doesn’t even attempt to fill the same things that religion fills in people’s lives. So using science to “debunk” religion makes zero sense at all.