[quote=flyer]
Imo, as long as life and death exist, the search for immortality will continue. Personally, I think the scientific and spiritual premises of this quest are quite compatible. More so than one might think.[/quote]
Those religions that believe in a supreme being are at odds with science, IMO. It is only in the last ten years or so that I have heard Christians start adopting some of the scientific constructs and proposing that they aren’t at odds. Christianity is morphing, as it always has done and always will do.
I don’t mind any of that, but find it amusing.
What really gets under my skin, though, is when folks go to the ballot box and try to vote in their beliefs as law, so that all of us must live by the tenets of their religion. I see that mostly from Christians, but have no doubt if this country was a majority Muslim or Hindu population, they’d be doing the same thing.
So if your religion believes there is a Dyson DC50 way up in the sky that invented the earth in 16 days and thinks you have to scratch your butt for 5 minutes a day to worship him/her/it, I’m all for it. Just don’t pass any rules saying my kid has to scratch his butt at school for five minutes a day.
