Wednesday, November 25, 2009

conflated faiths

Do you have faith in science, god, religion, myth or all of the above? Can you differentiate between those items?

A recent poll reveals that about half of scientists believe in god or a higher power while 95% of Americans are believers.

One could draw conclusions. Science erodes religious faith. The pressures of social conformity and unresolved existential angst are roughly equivalent to rational tendencies for agnosticism, atheism and rejection of faith.

My conclusion is that we haven't differentiated these issues and they will remain conflated within our cultures for many generations. Heck, hardly anyone even knows what a mythicist or such a position is and the process of differentiating spirituality and religion has just begun.





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