- we create beings and existential theories to explain what we cannot figure out ourselves
- who should then be the leader of a religious sect, if leadership only leads to corruption?
- no mortal being is infallible or pure enough
- are gods just an excuse to form a community?
- do we need religion to have morals/ethics?
- cosmic religious feeling:
- born with something "special"
- need some way to communicate to others
- my supervisor at work--Head of Orthopaedics, a scientist, says that throughout his career in science is faith has only gotten stronger (as a Catholic) because the more you learn, the more you realize that there has to be something higher that created all of this so perfectly
2/13/15
- cosmic religious feeling: what you put into it, your own feelings
- no expectations of a god, make choices without the fear of what a god would do
- God isn't "up there" but exists within us, with us--"you can see god in everyday life, but he is not necessarily an object or person"
- about curiosity, not necessarily a being
- science and religion can go hand in hand--
- they have the same end goal (figure out the world)--but in different ways
- trying to redefine religion
- need to give up the source of fear than religion was originally based on/created from
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