> On 8 Jun 2018, at 13:10, Brent Meeker <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > > > > On 6/8/2018 3:54 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> You confuse religion with argument per authority, and tat will continue as >> long as theology does not come back to science, which put reason before >> texts, and is modest in never claiming truth, but only means of testing >> ideas. > > No, you are confusing religion and theology.
OK. I do that sometimes. I try to use theology, the field. Religion means for me “conception of reality”, but its popular meaning is often impregnated with its current authoritarian trend. > Very few religious people are theologians. They believe things on faith > because they are told they are written in sacred texts. It is a form of > social control which works fairly well. That is why it is so widespread. It > depends though on poisoning the minds of children with myths and elevating > faith without reason to a virtue. I agree. Obviously that is not the religion or theology I am talking about. Bruno > > Brent > “When we come to believe, we have no desire to believe anything else, for we > begin by believing that there is nothing else which we have to believe…. I > warn people not to seek for anything beyond what they came to believe, for > that was all they needed to seek for. In the last resort, however, it is > better for you to remain ignorant, for fear that you come to know what you > should not know…. Let curiosity give place to faith, and glory to > salvation. Let them at least be no hindrance, or let them keep quiet. To > know nothing against the Rule [of faith] is to know everything.” > --- Tertullian > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
