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Originally Posted by Christmas Neeve

There's nothing wrong with that, the point is, you can't just pick and choose bits of a certain religion that you like and disregard the bits you don't but still claim to be a follower of said religion.

It's not a logical thing to do I guess, I agree with that part.

Originally Posted by Xanax Santa

What on earth are you talking about? What an odd comparison to make. Science has been stretched to agendas in the past, yes, but it is on the whole a fool proof system for proving things and making the world work. Hospitals were built by science. Rockets were put in the sky by science. Science works. It hasn't got all the answers yet but it's not meant to. It's an ever evolving, ever growing network of proven things. What do you think religious people do first when someone has a heart attack, say a prayer of phone and ambulance?

How in any of Daffy Duck's wettest dreams can you draw up a comparison between that and picking and choosing segments of some dog eared, highly altered, bronze age tract where the only criteria for validity and factuality being liking some bits but not others?

It doesn't even bear thinking about. Just mental, really.

do all these rockets, hospitals, etc make you feel any better about dying and the scientific idea that the whole of life is really just pointless and random? They don't make me feel any better personally