---Angels and Demons--Dan Brown
"...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.
But science's victory has cost every one of us. And it has cost us deeply.
Science may have alleviated the miseries of disease and drudgery 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 reduces 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 it's inhabitants are a meaningless speck in the grand scheme. A cosmic accident. Each of us are electonically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.
We are bombarded with violence, division, fracture, and betrayal. Skepticism has become a virtue. Cynicism and demand for proof has become enlightened thought. 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? Science looks for answers by probing our unborn fetuses. Science even presumes to rearrange our own DNA. It shatters God's world into smaller and smaller pieces in quest of meaning...and all it finds are more questions.
We cry out for meaning. And believe me, we do cry out. We see UFO's, engage in channeling, spirit contact, out-of-body experiences, all theses eccentric ideas have scientific veneer, but are irrational. They are the desperate cry of the modern soul, lonely and tormented, crippled by it's own enlightenment and it's inability to accept anything removed from technology.
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 it's 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 they contain no chapter asking us if it is a good or bad idea.
.........
Whether or not you believe in God, you must believe this. When we as a apecies abandon our trust in the power greater than us, we abandon our sense of accountability. Faith...all faiths..are admonitions that there is something we cannot understand, something to which we are accountable...with faith we are accountable to each other, to ourselves, and to a higher truth.
Religion is flawed, but only because Man is flawed.
But science's victory has cost every one of us. And it has cost us deeply.
Science may have alleviated the miseries of disease and drudgery 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 reduces 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 it's inhabitants are a meaningless speck in the grand scheme. A cosmic accident. Each of us are electonically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.
We are bombarded with violence, division, fracture, and betrayal. Skepticism has become a virtue. Cynicism and demand for proof has become enlightened thought. 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? Science looks for answers by probing our unborn fetuses. Science even presumes to rearrange our own DNA. It shatters God's world into smaller and smaller pieces in quest of meaning...and all it finds are more questions.
We cry out for meaning. And believe me, we do cry out. We see UFO's, engage in channeling, spirit contact, out-of-body experiences, all theses eccentric ideas have scientific veneer, but are irrational. They are the desperate cry of the modern soul, lonely and tormented, crippled by it's own enlightenment and it's inability to accept anything removed from technology.
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 it's 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 they contain no chapter asking us if it is a good or bad idea.
.........
Whether or not you believe in God, you must believe this. When we as a apecies abandon our trust in the power greater than us, we abandon our sense of accountability. Faith...all faiths..are admonitions that there is something we cannot understand, something to which we are accountable...with faith we are accountable to each other, to ourselves, and to a higher truth.
Religion is flawed, but only because Man is flawed.
posted by tyna at Saturday, July 30, 2005
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