Religion
In reply to the discussion: Why is there evil and suffering? [View all]skepticscott
(13,029 posts)But I'm used to disappointment. And I thought my question was clear. What true knowledge and understanding has Christian theology produced? I can understand that your inability to offer any real answers is humiliating for you, but buck up and accept the truth. You won't last long on this board being an intellectual pinata...trust me.
As far as the tired old chestnut about wars and weapons and global warming being caused by science, it's a rather elementary notion that scientific discoveries are merely tools, and like all tools, they can be used wisely or unwisely, destructively or constructively. Decisions about how they are used are not made by science, but by politics and morals. In fact, it is religion, not science, that claims to impart the wisdom and morality that it has always maintained that atheism and rationalism lack. So if you want to blame wars on anything, point the finger at the failure of religion to live up to its part of the bargain, for failing to instill peace and goodwill into humanity, and causing its own full measure of hatred and divisiveness instead.
You were aware of those rather elementary notions, weren't you?