Question by irishumanist: Is the search for REAL answers to life’s mysteries more gratifying than simply blindly accepting ancient dogma
Is there anybody else who feels an absolute joy and sense wonder and fulfillment when learning about the true scientific reasons for the how the universe and everything that is in it came to be ?
Do you feel an immense sense of wonder and amazement when you contemplate the sky at night and marvel at all we have learnt about our orgins and existance and all that there is still to know ?
Finally do you think that this joy and wonder is far superior to simply accepting ancient dogmatic myths as a way of explaining the world around us
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Answer by nikola333
Yes
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for some..but some people like playin it safe
Your question has no question mark.
YOU ARE THE DEVIL!
The wonders of nature are God’s creation.And your humanist pottage is the oldest religion in history.
most definitely
Not to be unkind to those who do believe whatever they believe and use it for altruism, wisdom and compassion, but yes, I find it far superior because I know that I can dig deeper with analytical study and understand whatever it is better w/o worrying about it clashing w/ my beliefs. Heck, Buddhism expects us to question the answers, so it’s logical.
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Most certainly. The greatest reward is the journey that one has undertaken to seek out what they are looking for.
Absolutely. But I love the myths for the universal truths about humanity’s intellectual and spiritual growth. They are useless, laughable, if mistaken for historical fact. To take them as such is a disservice to the powerful role of myth present, past, and future.
Absolutely. DNA is beautiful, the workings of a centerless,
edgeless universe is wonderful, and the working of evolutions that any one can see every day is beyond beyond… oh, thank my parents for having given me great genes and a wonderful mind that I can read and understand all this… and lucky us that we “were blessed to live in interesting times”. rather than in the middle ages somewhere or right now in Iraq.
Yep I’m with you there.
If people are too gullible, too lazy, or too stupid to look for evidence because it’s easier for them to believe what some preacher tells them, then that’s up to them. Waste of a good life if you ask me.
I’m 40 years old and an avid outdoor person. Even after all these years I find pure enjoyment in birds, trees, flowers and of course scuba diving.
And I do all this enjoying WITHOUT crediting a sky fairy.
Of course, its always better to learn and feel joy in evolution instead of simply saying ‘god did it’. Saying god did it requires NO logic, NO reasoning, NO science, NO critical thinking…no thinking at all really. Its a cop out.
Sounds like you’ve answered your own question.
I believe all truth comes from God. Science should never be something to be afraid of because it’s just investigating what God created.
So these “dogmatic myths” you refer to may be what you discover through your investigations. I do think the joy and wonder of learning something is amazing – but nothing compared to the joy that comes from having faith in a loving Creator.
Yes
Yes it is… wondering about everything makes life more interesting. But just to add a point… it isnt only the religious who “blindly accept ancient dogma” as there has always been disbelief as well. There has been the ancient dogma of “there is no God, when we die we rot in the ground” for as long as there has been belief in God. Also, the ancient atheistic dogma takes more wonder away than religion. How can you wonder about what comes after all this if you think there is nothing? How can you wonder what thought went into creation when you think it happened by chance?
Let’s be fair now 🙂
Yes, searching for real answers should never stop.
You are my hero. Jimbo molests collies
Yes, I absolutely do feel that sense of joy, excitement, and wonder when new facts come to light about the nature of the universe. But in all honesty, I also understand the fear that ultimately underlies belief in religion. The more we learn about the universe, the more we find out that it’s a pretty scary place. Supernovas, super massive black holes, asteroid strikes, planetary collisions. I sometimes almost envy the religious folks and their irrational childlike belief that there’s an invisible man up there protecting us from all that stuff.
Dude I completly agree with you.
Im a biologist and studying the wonders of life is just the best thing people could pay me to do (they don’t pay me well though).
It is sad though that many, many people view religion only as “simply accepting ancient dogmatic myths as a way of explaining the world around us”. I’m a Christian and i experience my faith in a much more fullfilling liberating way. It is also very gratifying.
Religion dosen’t explain gravity, the atom, evolution. It explain stuff in the spiritual realm.
Paz de Cristo
Naw, I’ll stick with blindly accepting ancient dogma. I find it very satisfying, thank you. I also prefer ancient political dogma such as enshrined in the U.S. Constitution and an ancient sexual-social institution called marriage (defined as a monogamous relationship between one man and one women). There’s more joy, wonder, and amazement in things that are true and that last than in loony, harebrained, mystical nonsense that doesn’t.