#54 — So what is *really* being taught is that science believes that God to be unnecessary.
Science and religion are both necessary in society, Lee. Nobody really disputes this.
And there’s no conspiracy, no ulterior motives: science is godless by definition. Science tells HOW stuff happens and HOW nature works, not WHY. Religion and philosophy deal with WHY, not HOW. There should be no collision.
Evolution tells us HOW we came to be. It also says that as we became intelligent we developed morals. The culture warriors claim that god gave us morals (a HOW issue) thus inventing a phantom to do battle with. Meanwhile what religion answers is WHY god figured that we’d need morals, and that’s a pretty good question.
At the end of the day, science tells us HOW it happens and we all say “cool, so that’s how god did it. Hmmm.” No collision.
Disputing HOW is a battle that cannot *possibly* be won. Not from any standpoint, and certainly not in politics.
You’d think they would want our help to fight their battles, rather than just heckle us from the sidelines while we both get our butts kicked.
False premise. The GOP without culture warriors would be much larger than the GOP with them. You seem to think that your numbers are significant. They aren’t. Most Americans go to church and believe in god. Yet the Dem voters outnumbered the GOP voters.
You can’t argue that people who attend church are solely your votes. They’re not. Church attendance aka belief aka faith does not a culture warrior make. As with the science stuff above, the culture warriors are inventing phantoms to do battle with and then wondering why they keep losing.
You want me to help you battle phantoms you invent.
Not happening.
