\"Bleached Faith\" (Religion)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Monday, October 12, 2009, 13:21 (5519 days ago) @ dhw

dhw,-> Matt: The only times a reconciliation needs to happen between the two, are either when science implicitly challenges a religious claim, or when a religious claim challenges science. Otherwise they coexist.
 
> It's interesting how many of the discussions on this forum (not just those in which you participate) revolve around difficulties of communication. Even with seemingly clear terms like evolution, abiogenesis, paranormal, natural, agnostic, we find huge areas of uncertainty opening up, because they mean different things to different people. Words are, of course, an indispensable tool, but no-one should be fooled into thinking that they're anything more than symbols. In similar vein, I love Magritte's painting of a pipe, entitled "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" [this is not a pipe]. It's worth a hundred pages of philosophy.-I fully agree; that's why I spend so much time trying to figure out motivations and intent. In person, if we were at a pub chatting philosophy over a beer, we could read each other's facial expressions and vocal tone. It's part of the reason my posts are books... I try to fill in as many of those gaps as I can. I also try to define terms (or at least try to remember to define terms) whenever possible.

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"