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Originally Posted by Bond
In America, we seem to have a science versus religion mindset, which I think is counterproductive. It seems to me as though they would work much more effectively together than against.
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This stems from the fact that the more we learn in the fields of science, the less and less we need God to explain things.
Science has already proven so many things in the Bible wrong, when they are read literally. The religious response to this was to start reading them metaphorically.
One of my favorite examples is the case of amputees. Whenever you ask most religious people if they think praying for their sick relatives and/or friends recovery actually helps them, they will all say yes. If their friend has cancer, an infection, a heart problem, etc, etc, they all believe that praying will help make them better.
But what about amputees? If you ask them if praying for an amputee will help them recover, their first reaction will be one of discomfort, then they will have to make up something far fetched like, "God has a special plan for those people."
You could argue that by being an amputee who is still alive, God has already helped you. But why, then, does god favor people with internal problems that are invisible to our eyes? Why does he sometimes help those people recover completely, but amputees are left with sometimes 4 missing limbs.
And what about victims of paralysis? These people are alive, but their limbs (or more) are unusable. People pray that they will get back their ability to use their bodies...apparently just being alive isn't good enough for these people. And if these people DO recover the use of their bodies, religious people will say "thank God." So, why doesn't your god help amputees recover the use of their bodies?
There are just so many unreasonable things about religion. The above example, as well as how obviously cross pollinated they are, yet they are all more right than the others! I think the cross pollination is proof that religions are just made up by humans throughout history, incorporating things they like, and leaving out things they don't like.
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Mormonism - a very strict religion by any stretch of the imagination, is a collection of some of the most industrious and wealthy persons America has ever known. A coincidence? Perhaps, but I think unlikely.
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Meh...yeah I think this is a coincidence. There are wealthy people of every religion.