March 6, 2008

  • Ignorance

    Seriously.  When will people learn some respect when it comes to religious opinion?  I am genuinely pissed off at someone for the insults they hurled at Christianity.  So, yes I am a Christian.  I'm finding it increasingly hostile to be one in the scientific community.  To be fair, there are some that politely voice their opinion that God does not exist, or profess that there may be a God, but it isn't the Christian God.  Others however are much more harsh and claim that it's all made up.  Now....is this a possibility?  Yes, it could be.  Do believe to be so?  No.  I don't.  Yes, the Bible is a human construction, but that doesn't mean that the ideas within are necessarily outdated. 

    I think that the people who rail against Christianity see it as an unchanging, archaic, religion that has no relevance in our world today.  They claim that the Bible is composed of coked out, drunken fools that decided to write some stuff down.  Yes, some of the imagery is vivid, but is it nonsensical rambling?  Seriously, have these people actually read any of the Bible?  Does it sound like some kind of delusion ask Freud claims?  Certainly not.

    I was posed the question.  "If I came up to you one day and told you that I got pregnant and that it wasn't because I had sex, would you believe me?  How can you as a scientist believe it?  How can you believe in the Imaculate conception?"  I told her it was a matter of faith.  I didn't have the heart to tell her that her question wasn't anything new.  People in Jesus' time probably didn't believe Mary either.  I also didn't have the heart to tell her that the Imaculate conception was about Jesus, it was about Mary.

    Now, it's one thing to attack ones beliefs.  I don't really have a problem with that, even if it's out of ignorance.  But when those attacks start being directed at me?  Now I have a problem.  First of all, you have no idea what my reasons are for believing in Christianity, so don't presume that I'm deluding without hearing me out.   Second, if you're speaking out of ignorance, you its.....questionable, as to whether you can make judgment calls on my personal beliefs, especially if you have wrongly conceived notions about what I believe in.

    Gah, I'm sick and tired of this crap.  I'm almost to the point where I understand the religious anger that is so prevalent in radical groups.  Alright...I'm done.  I'll write more about my story another time.  Maybe....just maybe...this will work its way into the conversation.