Why Be Interested In Other Religions?

[goodlife]

Regardless of where you live, you have no doubt seen for yourself how religion affects the lives of millions of people.

[Khandro]

jomifl; Well, at least your reasoning leaves the door slightly ajar! What I find amusing is that I get berated -as you will have seen- and called a "fool" and an "idiot" simply because I believe in a higher power, and yet there are highly educated physicists today who postulate that it is theoretically possible for a person to decompose on one side of a black hole and recompose on the other
and that there are diamonds in the sky the size of the moon.

Then there are parallel worlds; entire universes smaller than the size of a subatomic particle. String theories: strings which are vibrations of nothingness, 'like the blur of a guitar string without the string itself', a billion billion times smaller than the width of a human hair, each string being capable of giving rise to a universe.

But does my all-knowing critic utter one peep of condemnation at these concepts I wonder.
No, I don't think so, but the modest idea that there is something unknowable which I refer to as God is vehemently ridiculed, - funny that!

[jomifl]

Phycisists like postulating, but only to test ideas.

[Khandro]

jomifl; //Physicists like postulating, but only to test ideas.//

The best are not always postulating, they are asserting, that's how they get to Stockholm.

[Hypognosis]

@Khandro

I was going to say that no-one gets their gong without experimental evidence to back up their postulation or assertion but, then again, Albert did it with no practical experimentation of his own.

Perhaps uniquely, work which is almost entirely mathematical lends itself to disassembly and peer review by any with the required ability, so the business of replicabilty of methods and results can be straightforwardly achieved, albeit on paper, instead of in a laboratory.

If you spot ones which are assert things with precious little evidence, then by all means name names, so we can judge for ourselves.

I moaned about god-believing scientists the other week. It is a pity they don't drop their nominate field and spend the rest of their career seeking and revealing, to the rest of us, their experimental evidence for god. The money/mouth interface, if you will. It's a bit more dignified than hedging with Pascal's wager. :0)