TECHNOLOGY CORRUPTS FAITH.
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Televangelists, case in point.
Actually that’s a case of faith corrupting technology.
Touché
Apparently, the captioner has never had a blue-screen crash-dump of Windows. That has brought about a lot of praying by users hoping that their work/games have not been totally lost and can be recovered. Been there, prayed a lot.
^ this
I’ll remember that the next time I see the price the Cult of Mac charges for their crap.
This is from the well-known The Virgin in Prayer, by Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato, 1640.
Atheists are CONSTANTLY trying to make faith and science look antithetical. THE ARGUMENT IS INVALID: an early case in point is Gutenberg’s moveable type press. The first major project that he undertook with this technology was production of an edition of the “Vulgate” Latin bible in the 1450′s. This technology made directly possible the production of the Authorized ["King James"] English translation of the bible 160 years later, the 400th anniversary of the 1st issue of which is observed this year, 2011. The KJV is arguably the most influential book ever written in English, like it or not.
Clearly trolling, but I’ll bite.
One could debate the impact (socially, politically, historically) of the KJV, but there has been no other book in English that has been as widely read and yes, as influential (whether or not all or part of its tenets ave been followed) as the KJV. Don’t mistake adherence for influence.
And science and faith ARE intractably conjoined. Little known fact: the order Darwin listed for creatures evolving very closely mirrors that found in the Bible. Same thing with the Big Bang. In order to have a start of time (when the Big Bang would have theoretically happened), one must have faith that time is in fact linear. Cultures that don’t believe in temporal linearity (such as Indic cultures and belief systems) have no use for a Big Bang. Time, to them, is a giant circle, the beginning and ending of which are the same, and repeated. It’s like a giant clock where the hands point to different parts of the circle.
If you look at it from that standpoint, the so-called “start” that can be traced back is just one point on the circle. While it may take a very long time, that start point, according to such beliefs, will eventually come around to the “start” point again. It’s a nice little coincidence that the length of a day of Brahma in the Indic/Brahmanical belief systems is ~4.3 billion years, and the earth is said to be ~4.5 billion years old (one day of Brahma, and beginning to go into another night of Brahma the end of which is the destruction of the world and its recreation during the next “day”).
In that faith-based construct, we dupe ourselves into believing that time is linear because the circle is too large to see, and we lack the context to be able to understand it. So, back to the Big Bang. The Big Bang, while not necessarily Abrahamic (that is, Judeo-Christian-Muslim) in origin, has its genesis as a theory in researchers who are either consciously or in some cases unconsciously informed by the dominant Judeo-Christian belief systems of the cultures in which the theorists live (or lived). Whether they like it or not, faith is the basis of significant portions of modern scientific theory and doctrine.
Faith, then, is a heavy component of scientific theory and study.
After how long of avoiding and demonizing it, do tell?
Even now I scoff at mainstream religion since is condemns things like TV and rock music, only to turn around and join in to exploit it’s popularity.
Religion isn’t an innovator of technology, just an abuser of it.
Technology is slowly replacing “faith”… Just not fast enough for me Skippy! Technology keeps people and familys together (Smartphones, social networking, etc.), “faith” tears them apart. All you have to do is read the history of almost all religions to realize that little factoid…
“kids diving into their FB accounts at the dinner table”
That’s not technology’s fault; that’s a parenting FAIL.
Except faith in technology.