{"id":1130,"date":"2018-03-13T12:45:40","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T12:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2018-05-13T13:45:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T13:45:19","slug":"science-re-ligion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/open-religion\/science-re-ligion","title":{"rendered":"Science = Re-ligion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Science is frequently seen as partly or even completely opposite to religion. In the sense of re-ligion however, things get reversed.<\/h3>\n

Science is the quest to know the universe as it is<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and not as someone of a few centuries or even millennia ago has imagined it. Back then, almost nothing was known on many relevant domains. Present-day science knows 1.000 times more \u2013 or is it 1.000.000 times? Still, this may not be \u2018much\u2019 but it\u2019s much, much more<\/em>. Moreover, science is a striving to always keep progressing. This is very<\/u> relevant when a concrete religion tries to instill people with concrete knowledge about \u2018God\u2019.<\/p>\n

Religion should either abstain from \u2018knowing\u2019 or from \u2018instilling\u2019.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Science = quest for truth = quest for \u2013 in-depth and again and again \u2013 connecting all together. This is re-ligare -> re-ligion. Thus an anti-scientific stance should be seen as anti-re-ligious.<\/p>\n

Anti-science = anti-re-ligion.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2018Religion\u2019 is a term that is of course also used for any concrete kind of organized god-worshipping. In this sense \u2013 used by many \u2013 science may be incompatible with this or that religion just as these are incompatible with each other. Contrary to this, there is no essential incompatibility between science and re-ligion. Thus, in the concept of science itself, one can derive that<\/p>\n

science encompasses<\/u> re-ligion.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Put starkly: being anti-scientific in this profound sense is blasphemous towards re-ligion.<\/p>\n

Science-as-professed-by-many is also frequently anti-scientific, thus anti-re-ligious. This way, it\u2019s very understandable that religious people may tend to be distrustful of science. It is understandable but wrong.<\/p>\n

A touch of \u2018logic for believers\u2019:<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Any god-as-creator-of-universe can be known better by knowing the universe. It\u2019s his (or her or\u2026) direct way of speaking to us. The universe itself \u2013 and everything in it, big and small \u2013 is his very own \u2018book\u2019. No other, human-intermediated book can be a more direct communication than this one. The competition \u2013 in what is to be acknowledged \u2013 is not between \u2018the book\u2019 (or other kind of revelation) versus \u2018no book\u2019 but between this book or that book.<\/p>\n

A likewise competition is not between religion versus no-religion (the latter being seen as \u2018science\u2019). It is between religion versus re-ligion.<\/p>\n

So, what is the best way?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think (reaching for) truth is the best way. Thus: science, being nothing more nor less than this reaching-out.<\/p>\n

Very concrete consequence:<\/p>\n

Freedom of religion should be turned into freedom of re-ligion.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Worldwide.<\/p>\n

The freedom here lies in feeling free to pursue it. The best way to do this is the scientific way in broadest sense.<\/p>\n

Eventually<\/u>, freedom of religion and freedom of re-ligion are incompatible.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Any religion showing an anti-re-ligious stance should \u2013 for re-ligion\u2019s sake \u2013 be denoted as such. In due time and on a gentle slope, it should transcend itself or be transformed.<\/p>\n

\u2018Open Religion\u2019 is an example of such gentle slope.<\/p>\n

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