First Principal?
with everything advancing, whay the need for fear tacticts; "The End is Near!"
Looks Like Biblical Knowledge is droping back on fear, is not keeping up with the advancements you speak of. If they are indeed advances at all?
How can we know the Mind of a God? Any God? The thoughts, much less the after thoughts? We can not identify That God, see or touch or associate with..
It will always be by Faith for a Beliver, because metaphysics aside? There is no physical proof?
Or, more precisely, the capacity to respect others, or lack thereof.
Actually, it appears that you don't know much about love. It is something that is not just tossed around to every Tom, Dick and Harry that crosses your path. It is reserved for those in which you really care about, not total strangers. Because, if you love everyone, then you love no one.
The correct word is respect, not love.Why not? And, says who?
Is that YOUR definition of Love?
B.S. To withhold from the strangers is selfish.
This would be incorrect, especially if one loves self.
If YOU Love someone, then they have your respect. Or did you not know Love comes first before respect. You must love yourself, before you can love others. If you have no love for yourself, then you obviously don't respect yourself, then you obviously don't respect others.
I think you need see past your ego. It's not about you.
Does it look like a definition?
Really? Do you walk around the streets telling complete strangers you love them or do you offer love to only those you actually know?
Huh?
Where do you get that notion? Are you saying I have to love someone before I respect them?
No, I don't love myself. That's rather hilarious.
Yeah, sure.
We're not even remotely close to anything resembling a "theory of everything." It would be nice, but it's not happening very fast.
As for matter and energy, that's a great question. Nobody knows. A lot of people call it the Big Bang. Great, where'd that come from? Who lit the match? Other people call that God. Great, where'd he come from? Etc.
We're nowhere near figuring that out, finding "one answer." Even if we prove that the Big Bang is the right answer, and that it was the inversion of an old, collapsed universe reblossoming into a new dimension in some eternal cycle, that still doesn't answer who (if anyone) started it.
So don't worry. Religion is not in any danger. It's just going to change, like it always does, like it always has. It usually changes "whenever knowledge [is] rapidly increasing."
Religion holds societies together. Stable religions provide common rule sets, behavioral expectations, accountability (both real and super natural), and shared 'touchstone' of experience that binds a culture. Having that has proven in literally every single society ever studied anywhere, ever, to be fundamental. The religions that do it really well, enable stability, creativity, economic health and, from that "free time" at the bosom of which nurse the twins Science and Art.
If the culture doesn't rupture, it finds its way to increasingly accelerated learning, at which point the religion always comes undone because the new learning inevitably unwinds too many myths, particularly for those people who aren't able to allow for allegory and metaphor. So, that religion dies (often violently as the fundamentalists make war).
The cultural momentum will continue for a time, but eventually greed and the other human frailties work to unravel the civil side of civilization (often done by opportunists who manipulate the soft-minded and the desperate to believe they work for an outraged god). It's one of those things where the kids will do naughty things when the parents are away. When the culture's god/gods is/are gone, who's watching?
From there two things will happen, a new religion will pop up that can survive the cult and sect phases of religious evolution and reinvigorate the culture with a new sense of purpose and shared value, or the culture will decay, break up into smaller parts, and have pieces gobbled up by healthier nations/tribes/empires etc.
So, in a long, long nutshell, that's my response to your question. If you happen to read it, I hope it gives you something to chew on.
God is the man
I cannot for the life of me imagine how one would have a god, yet no religion?
Believing in a god is what religion is isn't it?Can't you belong to God without belonging to a religion?
Religions are organized by people.
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