Quote Originally Posted by soul
whats makes a preacher or pope know more about god than any of the rest of us? Same goes for theoligian's..... they go on belief in the unknow and blind faith in the unknow, along with "teachings" and "scipture" passed down.
Scientist on the other hand work with actual "facts" and "evidence" and can prove things........ big differnce, saying go to the head of a church or pope or anything to get the right "idea" or the decision on god or "religion" is complete bull****, they have no more knowledge or say so than a "religious" person walking downt he side walk, ****,teacher,bum, or construction worker, makes no difference.... please try to argue and differ
Well I do think that non-theologians(?) can know those things just as much as the head of a church or synagogue or whatever, but you are definitely going to find more people that are educated in that field in a place of that nature than on here. The vast majority of the people I meet that call themselves "religious" don't in fact have any clue what they really believe. They just take someone else's word for it because they were raised that way or are comfortable there or just going through the motions, etc. And btw, I don't mean that to say anything against anyone on here.
But for instance if you had a question about something specific, someone like that would probably have a better chance of knowing where to find scripture that would back it up. But for instance I am a Christian, so if I have a question about something I don't understand, I will go ask a minister at my church. It seems like a lot of people write off religion as not having the answers when they haven't really looked. That was my main point. Is before you judge someone else's belief system and give a public opinion on it, I think you should have a pretty good knowledge of it first.