Just a supplement to what I was talking about in CSI: neither scientists or religious diehards have the bottom line on the truth.
They both have an ulterior motive in pushing their own beliefs, regardless of how much evidence they say they have, to try and convince or convert the opposite side.
They both have an ulterior motive in pushing their own beliefs, regardless of how much evidence they say they have, to try and convince or convert the opposite side.
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Yes, you're right. Religious and political ideologies may use faith as a tool of persuasion to encourage moral behavior. After all, why do so many religions like Judaism, Islam, and Catholicism have hell for sinners and heaven for pious persons? Ideologies and Religions may also have some beneficial aspects like encouraging people to give to charity and to abstain from vices such as drinking or smoking though this moral persuasion may have less effect in the 21st century due to the advent of music players, television, and internet all of which depict irresponsible scenes such as drinking, drugs and sex.
Does anyone agree that the modern Japanese Anime and American Television Series are permissive about showing sensual and hedonistic images?
Also shouldn't science be free of systemic bias in order to maintain the accuracy of data from scientific experiments for future use? There has been much controversy over the support of defunct theories by various private and government institutions to support their ideological teachings. Such as the suppression of Galileo's heliocentric theory of
the solar system by the Catholic Church in favor of the human centered theory of geocentrism? Or the Nazis perverting the Germanic and Christian theologies to place the 'Aryan race' in favor of God and the Darwinian theory of evolution to promote the supposed superiority of Aryan believers?
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