Religion
In reply to the discussion: Religion is not the Problem: But is it the Answer...? [View all]Tigress DEM
(7,887 posts)Can you fit the largest quasar ever found in your backyard or do you have to settle for a picture?
TWO hands can only hold so much. Grasp.
A mind can comprehend factual data and lots of theory, but it can't completely contain what God is because there isn't a measurement that proves or disproves God's existence conclusively.
I choose to believe, but I don't begrudge others who don't. I have faith that at some point we'll be able to truly understand what it is that over several thousands of years people have called God and/or the Gods. There will be a way to measure the existence of a supernatural being who exists differently than we do and determine if it is the same divine spark people call God or something else.
Christians have some theories based on empirical evidence and shared data. But electron microscopes aren't powerful enough to examine if there is actually a spirit present in our body, so it's still all theory. I don't care what you think of my theories. There have been plenty of hair brained scientific theories over the years that have been replaced by better science. Things we think we "know" today may be disproved by better methodology or a discovery of something no one has known before.
As long as Church and State are separate and people are as free FROM religion as they are free TO believe, then the two sides simply need to agree to disagree.