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This is stupid. I typed a super long rant about it and then my tumblr decided I wasn’t posting it. Long story short, Science doesn’t give kids anymore reason to believe they came from stars than religion gives children a reason to believe they came from God. The comparisons, arent tied together at all. This is just ignorant and stupid. People are dumb.

Firstly, why would you even bother to reblog it just to bitch? If it’s ignorant and stupid because you do not agree, then move along, you don’t need to bring others down just because you disagree. [Maybe if you gave plausible reasons as to why this is so ‘stupid and ignorant’ I would take you a bit more seriously.]

Secondly, are you kidding me? Everything you’re made up of is the same things that make up everything else, including stars. Science gives you factual evidence such as to how life happens and why. While religion may give you spiritual intellect, but it does not give you solid factual evidence of how we came into existence, or what we are even made up of.

“Spiritual traditions give us ways of feeling connected with the universe. I want to remind you of another, scientific, way of feeling connected to the stars.

The same science that reveals to us the vastness of the universe also tells us another story: Astronomers explain that all the elements heavier than hydrogen originated inside stars. The carbon in the ink on a page, and the silicon in glass and microchips, were created in the heart of a star, long ago, as that star shined by fusing hydrogen. The iron that carries the oxygen in your blood as you read this, was created when a star, in its dying phase, exploded. ” Source.

Did you know that during certain periods through out humanity, medicine and multiple fields of science were literally banned for practice by the church itself, which was one of the main influences of government? This is because they feared the changes it would bring not only educationally, which would then publicly question the Church’s teachings, but it would also bring a shift in power politically and socially. They decided, instead of expanding our knowledge and understanding, that science was a threat, and to be brought down. Instead of figuring out why people were having [unknowingly at the time due to the halt of all scientific and medical studies] epileptic seizures, or hearing voices due to mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, or wild changes in mood due to bipolar disorder, they would cure them with ‘prayer’ and sometimes an exorcism. Obviously this never helped, and the person’s conditions went untreated in the proper sense, and were a lot of times, labeled as satanic, or possessed or a partaker in witchcraft. It’s easier to kill, ignore, and lock people away than actually figure out what’s wrong when you refuse to let people learn.

Honestly, if you ask me, I think science has done ten times more than religion has in our constant development as a species.

Though, not to say one is better than the other, everyone has their own opinions, but give some proper basis to your argument before you ridicule something you don’t have a plausible argument for.

As Carl Sagan said, ”I don’t want to just believe, I want to know.”

Edit: Just in case you didn’t know, you don’t have to believe in science, it’s still just as true and real even if you don’t know anything about it. That’s what’s wonderful about science, it doesn’t force you to believe and say you’re wrong if you don’t, like religion does. It’s still there, and usually right, even if you disagree. It also accepts the fact that sometimes it is wrong, and provides multiple ways to reinvent itself as well as disproved theories. Religion, on the other hand, rarely reinvents itself, and usually refuses acknowledgement that there might be multiple answers to one question or problem, instead of one single answer or correct ‘way’.

I find it funny that you jumped to such a conclusion that I don’t believe in science and strictly believed in religion. That is far from true. I appreciate the history lesson, I really do. I love learning about that kind of stuff because it helps me realize how the world is now and how it used to be. I respect everything you said. The thing is, this quote is comparing how religion, unspecified might I add, tells children the might go to hell. While space tells us where we might have come from. Those are opposites. You say science gives factual evidence as to how we might have come from stars and that ‘religion’ only gives spiritual evidence. You failed to realize that some people believe ‘religious’ evidence is FACTUAL. You don’t believe it’s factual and that’s your problem. It really bothers me by the way, that the ‘religion’ you speak of, isn’t specified. Not all religions believe in a greater entity that created us. Take Buddhism for example. I never, EVER, denied that science is truth, not did I deny it. Don’t just assume that to make your argument ‘more valid’. You said, “Religion, on the other hand, rarely reinvents itself, and usually refuses acknowledgement that there might be multiple answers to one question or problem” but as far as I’m concerned, the church I attend, a baptist church, ALWAYS, ALWAYS takes other things into consideration. don’t lump everything together. I never meant to bring anyone down or offend anyone. I apologize if I did. I stated my opinion just as you stated yours. Thank you your time.