tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3222418233330841391.post6137862165448565429..comments2024-03-27T05:25:04.829-04:00Comments on Hallowed Secularism: Bruce Ledewitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10419873523392584062noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3222418233330841391.post-66526242546791536592010-10-28T07:41:08.942-04:002010-10-28T07:41:08.942-04:00Sorry for my bad english. Thank you so much for yo...Sorry for my bad english. Thank you so much for your good post. Your post helped me in my college assignment, If you can provide me more details please email me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3222418233330841391.post-75108232147611135852010-10-16T13:09:57.402-04:002010-10-16T13:09:57.402-04:00One reason for the enduring popularity of "St...One reason for the enduring popularity of "Star Trek" and "Star Wars" is that science has become the post-enlightenment avatar for all the gods and demons of mythology.<br /><br />As Arthur C. Clark said, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."Antonio Manettihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00487502995709519940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3222418233330841391.post-1225828468248562802010-10-09T23:40:57.207-04:002010-10-09T23:40:57.207-04:00Part of the problem is that we are not "a sci...Part of the problem is that we are not "a scientifically committed people". As a society we gladly use the products of science, but we as a rule we are not committed to the skeptical attitude that underlies the methodology of science and gives it its power to uncover natural truth. Without that skeptical attitude we can fashion any ragbag of ideas into a religious faith. Perhaps the only hopeful note is that with the fading power of religious authority in the Modern West (I don't include the Islamic countries) these individual faiths that people cobble together are less dangerous. 500 years ago Calvin or the Pope could tie someone to a stake and burn them alive for denying their religious authority over some doctrine that we might find inconsequential. In the society of the Modern West that couldn't happen. Over the last several hundred years medieval religious authority has been separated from political power and been neutered. So - there is some progress, it’s simply measured in centuries and perhaps with this new crop of faiths we won't repeat "the same mistakes that idolatry has always made". <br /><br />Paul W.Paul W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13744164475187066231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3222418233330841391.post-59606826533783171502010-10-09T19:44:00.475-04:002010-10-09T19:44:00.475-04:00"When people stop believing in God, they don&..."When people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing -- they believe in anything."<br /><br /> -- GK ChestertonAntonio Manettihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00487502995709519940noreply@blogger.com