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weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.... spin spin spin spin!!!!!.... *vomits*
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| "Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand."
Never before has it been as obvious as it is at this moment. Science is the new God. Medicine, electronic communications, space travel,
genetic manipulation... these are the miracles about which we now tell our children. These are the miracles we herald as proof that
science will bring us the answers. The ancient stories of immaculate conceptions, burning bushes, and parting seas are no longer relevant. God has become obsolete. Science may have alleviated the miseries of disease and hard work and provided an array of gadgetry for our entertainment and convenience, but it has left us in a world without wonder. Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations. Even our self-worth as human beings has been destroyed. Science proclaims that Planet Earth and its inhabitants are a meaningless speck in the grand scheme. A cosmic accident. Even the technology that promises to unite us, divides us. Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone. We are bombarded with violence, division, fracture, and betrayal. Is it any wonder that humans now feel more depressed and defeated than they have at any point in human history? Does science hold anything sacred? It shatters God’s world into smaller and smaller pieces in quest of meaning... and all if finds is more questions.
The ancient war between science and religion is over and you have won. But you have not won fairly. You have not won by providing answers. You have won by so radically reorienting our society that the truths we once saw as signposts now seem inapplicable. Religion cannot keep up. Scientific growth is exponential. It fees on itself like a virus. Every new breakthrough opens doors for new breakthroughs. Mankind took thousands of years to progress from the wheel to the car. Yet it only took decades from the car into space. We are spinning out of control. The rift between us grows deeper and deeper. As religion is left behind people find themselves in a spiritual void. We cry out for meaning. We see UFOs, engage in channeling, spirit contact, out-of-body experiences, mind quests— all these eccentric ideas have a scientific veneer, but they are unashamedly irrational. They are the desperate cry of the modern soul, lonely and tormented, crippled by its own enlightenment and its inability to accept meaning in anything removed from technology.
Science, you say, will save us. Science, I say, has destroyed us. Since the days of Galileo, the church has tried to slow the relentless march of science, sometimes with misguided means, but always with benevolent intention. I warn you to look around. We are moving down a path of destruction.
Who is this God science? Who is the God who offers people power but no moral framework to tell you how to use that power? What kind of God gives a child fire but does not warn the child of its dangers? The language of science comes with no signposts about good and bad. Science textbooks tell us how to create a nuclear reaction, and yet the contain no chapter asking us if it is a good or bad idea.
The church is tired. It is exhausted from trying to be your signposts. Resources are drying up from the campaign to be the voice of balance as you plow blindly on in your quest for smaller chips and larger profits. Your world moves so fast you cannot stop for fear of being passed up. So you move on. You create weapons of mass destruction, but it is the church who travels the world beseeching leaders to use restraint. You clone living creatures, but it is the church reminding us to consider the moral implications of our actions. You encourage people to interact on phones, video screens, and computers, but it is the church who opens its doors and reminds us to commune in person as we were meant to.
All the while, you proclaim the church is ignorant. But who is mor ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power? The church reaches out to you. And the more it reaches, the more you push it away. Show me proof there is a God, you say. I say use your telescopes to look to the heavens and tell me how there could NOT be a God! You ask what does God look like. I say, where did that question come from? The answers are one and the same. Do you not see God in your science? How can you miss Him! You proclaim that even the slightest change in the force of gravity or the weight of an atom would have rendered our universe a lifeless mist rather than our magnificent sea of heavenly bodies, and yet you fail to see God’s hand in this? Is it really so much easier to believe that we simply chose the right card form a deck of billions? Have we become so spiritually bankrupt that we would rather believe in mathematical impossibility than in a power greater than ourselves?
Whether or not you believe in God, you must believe this. When we as a species abandon our trust in the power greater than us, we abandon our sense of accountability. All faiths are admonitions that there is something we cannot understand. Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed.
Listen to your heart. Listen to God. Together we can step back from this abyss.
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