While in a sense I would agree, you can’t just generalize like this. Science can also bring us the atomic bomb, since it’s more or less ethically neutral.
Moronic and childish. The author clearly has no concept of the distinction between religion and perversion. This is not what the world needs today, or ever. Science cannot teach people to be more loving, to work with their minds to benefit all beings, but that is at the core of all of the great wisdom traditions of the world. Every system on earth is made by man and can be perverted by man, whether it’s scientific or religious in nature, and failing to understand that and damning people of faith with a broad brush is utterly irresponsible.
I don’t think you understand the concept of science. Science is ethically neutral. Zealots have been known to use science to produce industrial quantities of death; religious zealots in particular.
I see no difference in the millions killed by products of science and those killed for religious motives. On both ends are men, with weapons, killing other men.
The difference is one of ideology. Science does not carry an ideology with it, religions are pure ideology, and therein lies the problem. Ideologies tell people how and what to think. Science teaches people to think.
Actually science CAN teach people to be more loving, to work with their minds to benefit all being. The field of positive psychology does just that, and some of the techniques it has found (from decades of study and research as opposed to unsupported inspiration) resemble some religious practices like prayer or meditation. Science provides facts instead of relying on faith (faith healing or researched medicine? responsible parents know which is the right choice.)
Science is neither good nor evil. Science is simply an intellectual framework with which to seek truth about the universe in which we exist. Science can be used for good or evil ends but that has nothing to do with science itself.
Wow. There’s nothing like bigotry and myopic, misguided intolerance on a day when we ought be reminded of the life-shattering destructiveness of both. Shame on you, PBH. You’ve lost this reader for good.
As a matter of fact, the Nazis build on a millennium of antisemitism that the people of the region were spoon fed by none other than the catholic church…that’s the same church that cooperated with the Nazis, by the way.
Mike, it is sincerely great that your church feeds hungry people! Keep up the great work, please! But I’d bet much of that food is preserved via scientifically developed methods, not prayers.
Science is the reason we fear Bioterrorism. Religion is the reason thousands were slaughtered in the witch hunts and Crusades. Science is the reason my grandmother is still living at the age of 89 and still doing well after several illnesses. Religion is the reason there are well over a billion practicing Jews, Christians, and Muslims who do good deeds every day. You can’t possibly be stupid enough to ignore that to everything in the world there is a good and a bad side – everything taken to extremes becomes dangerous. Fanaticism and hatred fly planes into buildings. Not religion.
Umm…while i agree with the top cell, the bottom one is inaccurate. But I thought that the root of the 9/11 attacks was years of political wrong doing and oppression. I could be wrong, and either way i still vote for science over religion or politics.
Let’s not forget the crusades, sir. Let’s not forget about genetically engineering bacterial cells to produce human insulin to help those with diabetes (remember that prayer doesn’t typically cure this).
Let us also remember that religions frequently pressure people to do good, be it for the community or otherwise.
And most importantly, let us not forget that in this world, nearly ALL wrongdoings (past, present, or future), have lead to scientific advancements that have, are, and will be used to improve everyday life. Take into account the HOLOCAUST. If a time traveler goes back in time and kills Adolf Hitler in 1939, we wouldn’t have the jet engine (or it wouldn’t have been invented for a long time), we wouldn’t have had the SaturnV rocket that took us to the moon, and we definitely wouldn’t have many of today’s vaccines and medicines. The German (NOT ALL WERE NAZIS, *Albert Einstein*) scientists were often forced to work for Hitler’s regime and the majority attempted to flee. These people would use science for good. The many that remained, however, did use science for evil.
BUT IN THE END, the evil science was later turned into good science. If Hitler never existed, the world would have been a very different place. A much more disease-ridden, famine-stricken, and warmongering world would be in its place.
Many people attribute the good they do to their interpretation of a god or gods. That they chose to believe in entities totally unsupported by any form of evidence does not diminish the good that they have done, and they should be commended for their contribution to humanity.
That said, those that believe their special books do not advance the human condition. Those that follow and teach any dogma by definition do not question and seek a better way. It is only those that question the previously established beliefs and try new things that have made the discoveries that have allowed us to advance as the human race.
The name of that process? Science
The main source of dogma that holds cultures back? Religion
While in a sense I would agree, you can’t just generalize like this. Science can also bring us the atomic bomb, since it’s more or less ethically neutral.
Religion also gave the crusades, and was a large reason behind why the atomic bombs had to be conceived.
Moronic and childish. The author clearly has no concept of the distinction between religion and perversion. This is not what the world needs today, or ever. Science cannot teach people to be more loving, to work with their minds to benefit all beings, but that is at the core of all of the great wisdom traditions of the world. Every system on earth is made by man and can be perverted by man, whether it’s scientific or religious in nature, and failing to understand that and damning people of faith with a broad brush is utterly irresponsible.
I don’t think you understand the concept of science. Science is ethically neutral. Zealots have been known to use science to produce industrial quantities of death; religious zealots in particular.
I see no difference in the millions killed by products of science and those killed for religious motives. On both ends are men, with weapons, killing other men.
The difference is one of ideology. Science does not carry an ideology with it, religions are pure ideology, and therein lies the problem. Ideologies tell people how and what to think. Science teaches people to think.
Actually science CAN teach people to be more loving, to work with their minds to benefit all being. The field of positive psychology does just that, and some of the techniques it has found (from decades of study and research as opposed to unsupported inspiration) resemble some religious practices like prayer or meditation. Science provides facts instead of relying on faith (faith healing or researched medicine? responsible parents know which is the right choice.)
Fanaticism flies you into buildings. Not all science is pure and good.
Science is neither good nor evil. Science is simply an intellectual framework with which to seek truth about the universe in which we exist. Science can be used for good or evil ends but that has nothing to do with science itself.
Science is much like a double-edged sword and then again, so can religion
Wow. There’s nothing like bigotry and myopic, misguided intolerance on a day when we ought be reminded of the life-shattering destructiveness of both. Shame on you, PBH. You’ve lost this reader for good.
Ciao!
no religion teaches hate, it is people who use religion to mask their innerself
Many religions teach hate. Study the Abrahamic religions if you need three examples.
Absolutely disgusting. My church feeds hundreds of people every week, and lets not forget what the Nazi’s did in the camps in the name of ‘science’.
You sir are a moron, and an ass
Nazis weren’t atheists and weren’t scientists. Totalitarianism was the problem. They put atheists in the same camps as Jews after all.
As a matter of fact, the Nazis build on a millennium of antisemitism that the people of the region were spoon fed by none other than the catholic church…that’s the same church that cooperated with the Nazis, by the way.
Mike, it is sincerely great that your church feeds hungry people! Keep up the great work, please! But I’d bet much of that food is preserved via scientifically developed methods, not prayers.
EPIC WIN SIR^
False. TECHNOLOGY flies you to the moon.
Are you trolling Literalist?
Science is the reason we fear Bioterrorism. Religion is the reason thousands were slaughtered in the witch hunts and Crusades. Science is the reason my grandmother is still living at the age of 89 and still doing well after several illnesses. Religion is the reason there are well over a billion practicing Jews, Christians, and Muslims who do good deeds every day. You can’t possibly be stupid enough to ignore that to everything in the world there is a good and a bad side – everything taken to extremes becomes dangerous. Fanaticism and hatred fly planes into buildings. Not religion.
To bring both sides to an interesting convergence.
Science is why everybody is arguing about this comic.
Religion is why everybody is arguing about this comic.
this is hilarious, dont listen to these losers
It’s too funny to look at this butthurt. LET IT GET TO YOU EVERYONE, FEED THE TROLL SOME MORE, Its genuinely entertaining to see.
Umm…while i agree with the top cell, the bottom one is inaccurate. But I thought that the root of the 9/11 attacks was years of political wrong doing and oppression. I could be wrong, and either way i still vote for science over religion or politics.
super childish, immature, and generalized.
Let’s not forget the crusades, sir. Let’s not forget about genetically engineering bacterial cells to produce human insulin to help those with diabetes (remember that prayer doesn’t typically cure this).
Let us also remember that religions frequently pressure people to do good, be it for the community or otherwise.
And most importantly, let us not forget that in this world, nearly ALL wrongdoings (past, present, or future), have lead to scientific advancements that have, are, and will be used to improve everyday life. Take into account the HOLOCAUST. If a time traveler goes back in time and kills Adolf Hitler in 1939, we wouldn’t have the jet engine (or it wouldn’t have been invented for a long time), we wouldn’t have had the SaturnV rocket that took us to the moon, and we definitely wouldn’t have many of today’s vaccines and medicines. The German (NOT ALL WERE NAZIS, *Albert Einstein*) scientists were often forced to work for Hitler’s regime and the majority attempted to flee. These people would use science for good. The many that remained, however, did use science for evil.
BUT IN THE END, the evil science was later turned into good science. If Hitler never existed, the world would have been a very different place. A much more disease-ridden, famine-stricken, and warmongering world would be in its place.
The best part is that at the bottom of the screen is an add for numerology! X-D
i am an atheist and still find this to be in extremely poor taste
Religion does not ‘do’ anything.
Science does not ‘do’ anything.
People are the actors that ‘do’ things.
Many people attribute the good they do to their interpretation of a god or gods. That they chose to believe in entities totally unsupported by any form of evidence does not diminish the good that they have done, and they should be commended for their contribution to humanity.
That said, those that believe their special books do not advance the human condition. Those that follow and teach any dogma by definition do not question and seek a better way. It is only those that question the previously established beliefs and try new things that have made the discoveries that have allowed us to advance as the human race.
The name of that process? Science
The main source of dogma that holds cultures back? Religion
Ha, excellent!