[Arm-netbook] Totally derailed topic

[Peter Carlson]

So you're a Protestant just not an *obedient* one.

On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 11:03 AM Christopher Havel <laserhawk64 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Science is something I can and do believe in. I'll take what can be
> concretely proved over what can't, any day of the week.
>
> That said, I do reserve a bit of reverence of a sort (for lack of a better
> term) for what cannot be determined through strictly Cartesian means (i.e.
> deconstructing a thing into its component elements, on the belief that the
> larger thing's functionality will become evident through said
> deconstruction)... it was Douglas Adams, I believe, who noted (quite
> truthfully) that, "[i]f you try and take a cat apart to see how it works,
> the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat." There is
> something that is inescapably metaphysical about life itself and how it
> comes about, at least in this world at this time, and I have a sort of
> respect for that -- an understanding between me and the universe, if you
> will, that there may be something that science can't explain that's going
> on there.
>
> But that's really about as close as I get to religion or faith. Organized
> religion, quite honestly, seems to me an exercise in podiatric
> self-marksmanship (if you'll forgive the euphemism) -- if the point of the
> whole thing is to bring you closer to God, why put structure and
> organization and the inevitable middlemen that such things bring with them,
> in between you and Him...? It simply doesn't make sense to me that, in
> order to speak to God, you have to go through something to the effect of a
> human bucket-brigade -- which sounds like an open opportunity for things to
> go like a game of Telephone, amongst the other disadvantages.
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