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Thanks so much for your detailed reply. Even I can not totally agree with what you said, it is a very good learning and discussion for me.
For your words: 世界上的科学都是在公理基础上推出定理,推论,逐步建立起来的。没有任何人可以证明公理。因为推论出来的无法证明其根源--公理。同理,被造物只能显现出来神的作为,也不能证明神和完全了解神。
Personally I think this is one of the biggest barriers for me to accept religion. The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.
Maybe, as an old saying says: For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.
I am still learning...
megchen 发表评论于
回复以理的评论:
Thanks for your kind words!
I almost became a Christian, but even with great effort, I failed. The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. Religion is the masterpiece of the art of human training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
I would not deny that Christianity (or other religion) can have positive influences in society. However, religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life in the world, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.
Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.
“The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries.”
― James Madison
ahniu 发表评论于
great explanation for Democracy.
How to use Christen values to explain Liberty?