Interference
Destroyer of Words
As an atheist who plays music in a Christian church every Sunday, I have a huge amount of respect for some believers, if not for their beliefs. When I listen to sermons and readings, particularly those which relate directly to the words of Jesus, I have to translate what I'm hearing into what I can accept that any supposed "teacher" or "wise man" or "magus" would actually say.
There is no doubt in my mind that the churches and formal religious groups who have control over these ancient writings, and thus control over how they are distributed, are either keeping the important truths back or are honestly ignorant of what they are.
I'm equally positive that this is true of practically every faith-centred clique. The people who preach it, don't really get it, so they dumb it down, first, for themselves and, second, for their congregations. The consequence: The good stuff sinks in after a while and the mistranslated stuff becomes bad stuff that also sinks in.
The Vatican may or may not be paying lip-service to science here, realising that their congregation is no longer reliant on one source of information, but on the other hand they may actually be trying to expand their own knowledge-base. When the ship is sinking, someone has to wonder if the hole can be fixed, if maybe the next vessel of this class can have a stronger hull.
Millions of people are leaving the Catholic church every day, very often to go and set up their own churches. There are now more registered denominations of Christianity than any other religion in the world. And that's an interesting point: People are leaving Catholicism, not their core belief in the Christ.
I hope that the Catholic church will learn from their scientific endeavours. I hope they will modify their behaviour, as a result. I actually really do hope they discover what it is that they've been worshiping for all this time because I have a sneaking suspicion that science will arrive at a similar conclusion, from a different perspective, quite soon, now.
This may be a knee-jerk response to their dwindling numbers, but good may come of it.
There is no doubt in my mind that the churches and formal religious groups who have control over these ancient writings, and thus control over how they are distributed, are either keeping the important truths back or are honestly ignorant of what they are.
I'm equally positive that this is true of practically every faith-centred clique. The people who preach it, don't really get it, so they dumb it down, first, for themselves and, second, for their congregations. The consequence: The good stuff sinks in after a while and the mistranslated stuff becomes bad stuff that also sinks in.
The Vatican may or may not be paying lip-service to science here, realising that their congregation is no longer reliant on one source of information, but on the other hand they may actually be trying to expand their own knowledge-base. When the ship is sinking, someone has to wonder if the hole can be fixed, if maybe the next vessel of this class can have a stronger hull.
Millions of people are leaving the Catholic church every day, very often to go and set up their own churches. There are now more registered denominations of Christianity than any other religion in the world. And that's an interesting point: People are leaving Catholicism, not their core belief in the Christ.
I hope that the Catholic church will learn from their scientific endeavours. I hope they will modify their behaviour, as a result. I actually really do hope they discover what it is that they've been worshiping for all this time because I have a sneaking suspicion that science will arrive at a similar conclusion, from a different perspective, quite soon, now.
This may be a knee-jerk response to their dwindling numbers, but good may come of it.
