| Agent 007, what you posted I find absurd.. especially this part:
"Give me one religion that requires "drugs, sex, and crime." A religion easily applies a direction for a person; a direction that would lead him or her to personal success. The person must follow this provided code or he or she would be unhappy"
I will make this as simplistic for you as I possibly can. I am not a religious person, whatsoever. However, I do not do drugs, give to charity, treat others as I would wish to be treated myself, involve myself with crime... etc. If you remember what I wrote, I implied that we were "lucky" to be here... we have brains that are sophisticated enough, for the majority of us, to understand how fortunate we are, thus realizing the importance of preserving life - we value our own lives and understand that others value their own, and they have families that love and care about them too. You imply, with no organized religion, we would be a disorganized mess. I argue, we are an intelligent-enough being to avoid such behavior. Consider this:
MANY scientists are not religious believers. However, it is the scientists who are studying the earthquakes that kill people, tornadoes that kill people, and ozone layer holes that could eventually kill people... why are they doing this? So they can learn more about these phenomenons, thus giving them the chance to SAVE LIVES by providing humans with more time to get to safety in the event of an earthquake or tornado, or provide methods of stopping ozone layer depletion to avoid UV dangers to humans in the future. Many of these people aren't religious, so why are they trying to protect humanity? You seem to think the nonreligious scientists should have just descended into a life of drugs, sex and crime... hmmmmmmmmmmm. |