It is going to take agreement to dissuade the ignorant to accept where their knowledge stops. But the problem is, even the non-ignorant will find they commit the very same evil when choosing their belief.
The truth is most likely that science is correct in a lot of data, and wrong in some interpretation. It is most probable that wise living was recorded and taught via the governments available in earlier centuries, in which there was not a separation of church and state.
Now most honest and intelligent scientists, from my research, have shown that their religious and scientific opinion of God is simply "I Don't know." and more or less take on the position that organized religion is mostly false, but yet do hold some truths and valuable lessons in religious text in many cases.
My personal take on this video, is that it is heavily skewed, that it is a reflection of a few, mostly far right within the bounds of being labeled extremism. But with anyone who has been taught from children to believe under all circumstances, lest your souls die, to not forsake the teachings of their fathers and mothers and religious leaders, the path to acceptance that today’s knowledge is greater than that of the past, is not an easy take. For some, it is impossible to even suggest.
Therefore the opening of the minds of the far right and the far left to accept where their knowledge stops, and to speak with reason, without malice or agenda, but simply truth concerning spirit and the birth of existing for the sole purpose of mankind’s survival and success: will not be easy for either side.
Only with patience and honest debate, without the targeted attacks that debates draw, nor the ambition to win for the sake of winning, and abolishing the use of sophistry for a poorly examined belief that people desire to exemplify, could the species as a whole have any hope of drawing others with any great success of numbers: to realize their beliefs are poorly examined.
The truth will be unacceptable to some on both sides, but do not focus your energies there. Focus them on those who think, who listen, who research, and who care.
Whether you read my post and have religion, or read as a scientist who accepts no certainties: my plea is for true examination of what we can know. That we all come to an acceptance of philosophies concerning those areas; and an agreement as to what is necessary to create a world worth living in for the human race.
For us, and our children, the stakes have never been higher. Agreements on the global warming front have some saying the earth could lose 75% of its life by 2300 if current trends continue. That’s reason enough for us to quit bickering about what we do not agree on, and start finding the solutions within what we do agree on.
All will find an area to disagree concerning any matter that is debatable. But the solutions to our problems in society will rest on the areas that we agree.
keep your mind from this way of enquiry, for never will you show that not-being is
~parmenides
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