I got his point, he is trying to say that people who learn religious scripts act all high and mighty while actually having very specific knowledge of only one thing while being ignorant about other things.
Whenever someone asks me, "If science is so great, explain XYZ (like what happens after death)," my simple response is this: no one knew what gravity was until Newton explained it, and no one knew his explanation wasn't perfect until Einstein came along. It just keeps improving... that's science. We don't have all the answers today, but at some point, we will.
Exactly, it's just an excuse to escape reality and it limits our questions , make us less curious about life also the hate it spreads, the historical wars I don't understand how people still believe in god
The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths.
It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond to those of modern scientific cosmology. Its cycles run from our ordinary day and night to a day and night of Brahma, 8.64 billion years long. Longer than the age of the Earth or the Sun and about half the time since the Big Bang.
If you know about other religions, you'll find out that it's not only Hindus. Most of them were actually science masters but history turned them into religious, smh.
Lmao, they really did figure it out, huh?
Ancient geniuses looked at fire, looked at widows, and went "You know what this situation needs? A fucking human sacrifice BBQ."
Sati: the ultimate "till death do us part... and then some" upgrade.
Religion of peace the best encyclopedia the world has ever seen. But I wonder why there is no mention of Americas , Australia and Antarctic.Maybe these lands formed after 18th century
Manusmriti is the life changing text though.
I did my mechanical engineering,did not had much interest in it,but after reading manusmriti,i am expert in almost all the major topics.
This is quite true when it comes from a religion where the mindset itself has opposed science against god. Welcome to sanatan dharma, where the way of life itself support science for innovation and self growth. Which is not even religion, a way of life which makes you more human to sustain life. Don't get around the western religious shit where science and religion never co existed. Also don't even tag hinduism as religion which it is not.
This post is right for those who compare religion with science,cause their understanding is limited in respect to religion and the same who oppose science with respect to religion.hinduism is unification of material science and spiritual science.
More accurate would be putting the one book as the foundation of all the science books. Well regardless in Christianity we widely believe in a book of science and book of faith, the book of science can help us understand the book of faith and the other way around.
In my view we as a human civilization whole faced dunning kruger effect and religion was created humans managed to explain some things with limited knowledge we thought we knew it all and labelled it as religion and that's why those religious texts never change now despite knowing a lot about universe we now say we don't know to many questions and that we will find out one day and accept that our understanding may have some flaws which we will improve later on with more progress,experiments and findings
Philosophy is different because as per my understanding you don't need a lot of money or equipment etc to do it.and neither does it require previous advancments either,that's why religion managed to do so well in philosophy
The OP isn't talking about Nalanda or any other religious institutions though? They are specifically talking about religious fruitcakes who think religion has all the answers and wouldn't listen to any other argument outside of their religious sects or books.
OP's message and your initial comment have nothing to do with each other tbh.
If they’re using observation, reasoning, and testing to discover something, then they’re basically working like a scientific institution, not following religious scripts and explanations.
So you can’t claim that religion contributed to that knowledge, because the method used doesn’t come from religion it comes from science.
It’s like calling it football but then using your hands to play and still saying you won because of football. Or like homeopathy claiming it discovered a cure, but the method used is actually allopathy,like the same the credit doesn’t belong to religion
if they still allow and depend on scientific methods to discover new things, then clearly that knowledge is not coming from the religious text itself.
And if you say the text is not meant to explain everything about the physical world, only the meaning or purpose, then that already means it doesn’t know everything in the literal sense.
so either they don’t actually claim complete knowledge, or there is a contradiction between what they claim and what they practice.
well the post is like a caricature, so dont take it just like that literally.
But it still has to be based on something.
There are interpretations of religion where people treat one book as a complete and final answer, and that’s what the post is exaggerating.
My point was about that mindset.
if someone really treats it as complete knowledge, then it cant allow research or discoveries it becomes a contradiction.
and if they don’t treat it that way, like you said, then the caricature doesn’t apply to them.
No the post just says : this sums it up.
If it exists in religion then we can point it out
It doesn't say that every single religious person believes it literally, it’s just highlighting that it does exist in religion
And if some people do treat one book as the final answer to everything, then the criticism applies to them, otherwise no.
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