This is an extremely good point and it will take alot of time
just to disseminate the points accurately.
I think u are viewing it in a very "simplistic" manner.
Does your statement to take account of a complex range of
social, economic and historical factors?
Linking religious belief and intelligence in this way could reflect
a dangerous trend, developing a simplistic characterisation of
religion as primitive, which - while we are trying to deal with
very complex issues of religious and cultural pluralism - is
perhaps not the most helpful response.
I personally share the views of this man, who was, they say, a
fairly smart guy:
"A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of
the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant
beauty - it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the
truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a
deeply religious man. (Albert Einstein) "
"I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this
but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be
called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the
structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. (Albert
Einstein, 1954) "
"I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly
harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the
fates and actions of human beings. (Albert Einstein) "
And all must remember that "with faith comes hope, and with
facts comes knowledge."
I think its not about believing in God as in christianity's god
per se, but believing that there is something of higher being or
intelligence. =)
thanks for the much appreciated excerpts! What einstein (and I
assume you) espouses perfectly encapsulates my agnostic views on
religion and spirituality. There is certainly the omnipotent marvel
that is nature, or what einstein calls "the orderly harmony of what
exists" and its sheer scale.
To Rooney, I've heard of them!