No I am not into religion or spiritualism of any kind, I am a true believer in science however I do find the subject quite fascinating hence I may come across as swinging towards both sides in my posts. I am not being argumentative here, you know a lot more than I do and I actually enjoy learning more about it. Religion from a historical point of view is very interesting especially if your looking at it from a neutral position.
As far as traditional religions go, I find it beggars belief that some people in effect waste their lives dedicating it to no more than mythology and superstition, its like these people that dedicate their whole lives to building a shrine to star wars and learning every line from every film.
I have worked with a lot of catholics and i must stress that the younger generations are more reasonable about it but some of the older ones are still very predudice and look at non catholics as evil heritics that should be burnt alive. Some even speak with fondness of the good old days when it was acceptable for nuns to whip their fanatical beliefs into small children in catholic schools. What makes them so sure they are right and everyone else is wrong?
Nobody can deny that religion had been a tool over the centuries to make a hell of a lot of money and keep the lower classes fixed firmly in their place.
i dont feel religion and science can live together, for centuries religions only answer to anything it does not like for example scientific discovery or the discovery of ancient scriptures has been delt with by sticking their fingers in their ears and refusing to even consider it.
Science may not have all the proof but religion has absolutely none!
Ancient texts written by men not gods, provide no evidence of anything whatsoever.