[quote=briansd1][quote=afx114]Carl Sagan is my God.[/quote]
Me too. 🙂
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BTW, for those who miss the subtlety of it all, Carl Sagan is not God, he’s my “God” (just a figure of speech).[/quote]
Brian: Here’s the problem: You’re getting “God” mixed up with “Religion”. Religiosity and Spirituality are two very different things. I don’t think of God as some Monty Python-esque cartoon figure who lives in the sky.
I also don’t believe that the Bible holds all the answers. To the contrary, the issue of the Bible as a contiguous book is very much in dispute, as are the rulings of the Nicene Council as to what belongs and what doesn’t belong (apocryphal books and extant writings).
If you were to look at various men of science, including Einstein, Pascal and Descartes, I think you’d be surprised at the level of spirituality (as distinct from religiosity) present.
As a Jesuit Catholic, I was raised to believe that the flight to true enlightenment was on two wings: Faith and Reason. Neither supplants the other and both are held in equal regard.
When you impugn your evangelical “Kansans”, make sure you don’t toss those of us who are part of the very foundation of Western reason, science and philosophy under the bus, too.
