a few century man will wonder how his ancestors might have believed for thousands of years, for the most ignorance and irrationality, but others cynical calculation of power, the fairy tales of religion, to the point of invading new lands to colonize in the name of a fictitious God, send explorers and missionaries to convert by force, wage wars, murder, torture, or simply to condemn those who did not think or believe differently, and always, censoring, restricting the freedom, influencing the social, political, economic or civil human beings, based on contradictory and childish legends never felt so improbable that if they covered other areas of thought would have been derided as something stupid.
Well, this is the history of mankind, and it is certainly an exciting aspect of our thinking.
fact, wonder if somehow the logic, rationality and science were able to survive and, at least in recent centuries, progress. Why - History and psychology have shown - the tube can not think of religion, but presupposes from the outset that it is impossible to think freely, as is typical of human intelligence, which is free, always critical, based on the doubt on the findings to establish or refute all the time.
Religion, therefore, as a typical "stupid thing" in the literal sense, as it leads to not thinking. In fact, what may be considered, for example, those who believe that Mary was a virgin very fruitful, while remaining a virgin, after the announcement of an angel, and giving birth to more of a man-god who then rise again after death? Only one-hundredth of such fantasies, when applied to any human activity, would lead to the discrediting of the whole person, with dramatic consequences for his work (not exceeding the aptitude tests, dismissal) and his own life (mental hospitals, prison etc.).
Religion, any religion, but is still a free port of the absurd and the wildest fantasies of childhood, without any kind of consequences for believers. Indeed, although declining, is still supported by social consensus and a positive assessment. Sure, it would be wrong and unnecessarily offensive blame the last of the believers, but it is clear hyperbolic unequal treatment and psycho-social reactions among religions and, for example, ideologies, philosophical beliefs, even scientific knowledge.
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And speaking of the comparison between religion and science, the scientist Umberto Veronesi in an interview on Sky TG24 afternoon recently stated that "religion prevents you from thinking."
"Religion, by definition, is full - Veronesi said - while science lives in doubt and the search for truth. The religion of reason and science to prevent lives in the pursuit of truth. They are very distant worlds."
Umberto Veronesi, during Sky Tg24 afternoon, explained the reasons for that, as a scientist, led him to move away from faith. Science and faith can not go together - said the surgical oncologist, said in a statement the agency Ansa - because faith requires absolute belief in something that was revealed in the past, a kind of legend that persists even now, without criticism, without the right to question the mysteries and dogmas to be accepted, or rather suffered. "
According to Veronesi, in fact, religion, by definition, fundamentalist, while science lives in doubt and the search for truth, the need to try to criticize itself and try again. In essence - is his argument - they are two worlds and concepts of thought very far apart, which can not be embraced them both simultaneously.
During the program the doctor later revealed to come from a very religious family. "I prayed the rosary every night up to 14 years," he said. But he said he decided to leave, at first with great difficulty, after examining thoroughly all religions. "Because - he concluded - I am convinced that every religion expresses the need for a population at that historic moment." (From Bend, 4 February 2010)
