Michael Hohensee wrote:
Actually, you may be interested to know that *everyone* is religious, in some manner. Everyone has at least one untestable assumption about the world. That is, everyone has a kind of faith. Let's give some examples:
Christians believe that there exists a Being, called God, which somehow Moslems believe in the existance of a different God, and have different Atheists believe that God *doesn't* exist, which is essentially the same Even people who are nonreligious, or agnostic, have a religion. For The Transcendentalists of the 19th century, for example, do not really Scientists tend to think differently. Their beliefs can be described by
Lots of scientists look pretty religious about their 'science' to me. Their untestable assumption being that they are capable of comprehending what may be beyond them. Try reading His Master's Voice' by Stanislaw Lem: very nice piece of fiction. I'm now an avowed Apatheist - I don't give a damn what the answers to unanswerable questions are. Especially when those answers come from someone with an obvious agenda. Is that religious? Put a worm on the hook, pop the top off my beer. Argh! It's Coors. I only wish it were imaginary. If not Guiness, at least let it be a Corona. Happy Friday, Mike