You know, I think I've recently been coming to realize what Nietzsche meant when he said that God is dead. (Without actually reading any Nietzsche, keep in mind. This is based off some light Wikipedia research and a lot of thinking). I've actually come to realize that I can agree with his claim despite the fact that I believe in God. The God he was talking about was the God like the old gods, the gods that were myths for how the world worked. He was claiming that we don't need God to explain how our world works anymore, and he's right. However, that doesn't destroy God, only one form of him that wasn't important to his nature to begin with.
Einstein wrote about this, too, though more genteelly. Science has broken free of Religion, thankfully, but there are still things that Science cannot answer, and those are the things Religion deals with.
And finally, having faith is not the same thing as being dumb. Quoted from the Wikipedia article on Kierkegaard:
(Creationists are annoying)
Einstein wrote about this, too, though more genteelly. Science has broken free of Religion, thankfully, but there are still things that Science cannot answer, and those are the things Religion deals with.
And finally, having faith is not the same thing as being dumb. Quoted from the Wikipedia article on Kierkegaard:
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Basically, there is a life room for both pure rationality and faith.The leap of faith is his conception of how an individual would believe in God, or how a person would act in love. It is not so much a rational decision, as it is transcending rationality in favour of something more uncanny, that is, faith. As such he thought that to have faith is at the same time to have doubt. So, for example, for one to truly have faith in God, one would also have to doubt that God exists; the doubt is the rational part of a person's thought, without which the faith would have no real substance. Doubt is an essential element of faith, an underpinning. In plain words, to believe or have faith that God exists, without ever having doubted God's existence or goodness, would not be a faith worth having. For example, it takes no faith to believe that a pencil or a table exists, when one is looking at it and touching it. In the same way, to believe or have faith in God is to know that one has no perceptual or any other access to God, and yet still has faith in God.
(Creationists are annoying)
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