Neil deGrasse Tyson: Science and Religion Are Not ‘Reconcilable,’ So Stop Trying

[AtheistCrusader]

67. I also enjoyed all three mythologies.

In fact, I read them extensively, by happenstance of what sort of books I picked up and read out of the Young Readers series, I think from Readers Digest or some similar publisher.

In retrospect, I consider it an inoculation against what I later read in the bible. While I enjoyed the stories, somewhat, I took very little away from them, aside a general incredulousness toward other metaphysical/supernatural source claims. Possible I would have been unimpressed by the bible otherwise, but I recall my first awareness of the bible being direct conflict with the question 'why is this claimed to be real, when these others are not'.


But I don't think much of my day to day life or persona reflects anything from those stories. They were just stories. No more informative, than Shakespeare or anything else I've read.

The only door any of it opened for me was marked 'exit'.


I realize there are deeper correlation issues in that data, very core, cultural correlation issues that are difficult to measure. Still, I found the TYPE of god people believed in being at least loosely correlated to the data, very interesting. (Specifically, the bit about people who believed in a forgiving/salvation path god being more violent than the people of the unforgiving old-testament-gangsta style being less violent, without even broaching the question of secularism.)