Religion, a Good Thing?

Religion, a good thing?

The illusion that a supreme being is watching your every move to judge whether you do good or bad, is just kind of sad. For that is not God, that is Santa Claus a guy I stopped believing in, when I was five.

I am no man of religion and I still consider myself a pretty decent guy. The belief that you have to live by a religious founded absolute morality, to be a good person, is a lie. Saying that your religion is the only answer is called ignorance. And to preach your religion and denying scientific facts is bigotry. There are many millions of devout Christians, Jewish, Muslims and others, however, who reject such closed-mindedness and seek to make religion a bridge instead of a barrier.

In the text written by Karl W. Giberson and Randall J. Stephens we see that some Christians have been fed up with the religious bigotry of the republican presidential candidates. They feel like the voice of ignorance and anti-intellectualism too many times have been associated with the voice Christianity. They argue that you can combine faith and science, the religious paradigm they support is the so-called dialogue thesis . This is not to be confused with the theory of creationism or intelligent design, which is imposing as science. The authors of the article Mr. Giberson and Mr. Stephens are both religious and support modern science as evolution and climate changes. P.3.L.21-23"But when the faith of so many Americans becomes an occasion to embrace discredited, ridiculous and even dangerous ideas, we must not be afraid to speak out, even if it means criticizing fellow Christians." They think that the problem with the republican candidates is that they have embraced the conflict-thesis were modern science is dismissed in favour of religion. The word fundamentalism is mentioned a couple of times. The definition of a fundamentalist is; a person who strictly maintains the religious laws and adhere to their holy scripture. Therefore is must be fair to call some of these religious people fundamentalist. The authors think that those who condemn modern society and live life by the bible are fundamentalist, and that too many of the republican candidates have embraced this way of thinking. P.2.L.1-6."Fundamentalism appeals to evangelicals who have become convinced that their country has been overrun by a vast secular conspiracy...They have been scarred by the elimination of prayer in schools; the removal of nativity scenes from public places; the increasing legitimacy of abortion and homosexuality; the persistence of pornography and drug abuse; and acceptance of other religions and of atheism."

What the authors sees as another problem is the reality of the "parallel cultures", on the one hand we have the society where kids are taught the ways of modern science and history, and on the other hand we have the society where kids are taught things like intelligent

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