http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/05/baloney-brooks-and-blair/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:44:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/05/baloney-brooks-and-blair/#comment-404 Michael Kenny Sat, 19 May 2007 19:34:35 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/05/baloney-brooks-and-blair/#comment-404 Sidebar: Religion, which Mr Riggins, like Blair, refers to by the yuppy misnomer "faith". does not deal "with hopes and unseen non-empirical pseudo-entities". Religion is an attempt to understand and explain our existence on this planet in a rational way, to draw conclusions from that analysis as to the natural order of the world and to edify rules of morality on the basis of that order which allow us to live in harmony with it. Science and religion are esential to each other, and complementary, but religion follows sceince, not vice versa. Science tells us the "what" and on that basis, religion seeks to understand the "why". Sidebar: Religion, which Mr Riggins, like Blair, refers to by the yuppy misnomer “faith”. does not deal “with hopes and unseen non-empirical pseudo-entities”. Religion is an attempt to understand and explain our existence on this planet in a rational way, to draw conclusions from that analysis as to the natural order of the world and to edify rules of morality on the basis of that order which allow us to live in harmony with it. Science and religion are esential to each other, and complementary, but religion follows sceince, not vice versa. Science tells us the “what” and on that basis, religion seeks to understand the “why”.

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