If your religion doesn’t evolve, it will drive you to extinction
Separate your spirituality from your dogma
Religion predates science. While that doesn’t mean that science replaces religion, it certainly means that religion should be informed by science.
If religion knows everything, it’s a closed system permitting nothing new.
As the world changes, that closed system cannot encompass it. Since adaptability is survival, refusal to adapt is the opposite of survival, it is death. Collective death is extinction.
Whether you are religious or not, you should recognize that the fight is with closed belief systems of any kind.
Some people want to believe that religion knows everything and does not need to be informed by science, and that’s demonstrably false.
Pull out your favorite religious text and show me, where are Maxwell’s Equations? Where are the theories of quantum mechanics, special relativity, general relativity? Where is the periodic table of elements? Where is the DNA chemistry described?
Or to put it more simply, jump off your chair and use your power of belief to defy gravity.
We are witnessing a massive attack on knowledge because authoritarianism needs a justification to exist, and equally as important, knowledge is the main check on authoritarianism.
Since religion is one of the most resistant belief systems, and because religion is the source of morals for many people, unless religion is willing to be a force for universal human rights in this dark time, it will be either passively complicit or actively enabling the suffering of millions of people.
Your beliefs, no matter how sincere, are not justification for depriving or disallowing others their human rights.
On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You’re Not by Robert A. Burton.
