The Pharaoh, Exodus, God, and the Meme that started an argument

[SunsetBengal]

(09-21-2016, 09:17 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: Observation is a part of the scientific process. 

I'm not sure where you are going with this because I don't believe I've ever claimed science will replace or eliminate human nature. I don't believe any scientist has ever made that claim. Can it affect our morals? Sure it can. Our medical/scientific understanding of conception and death influences our ethics related to abortion and euthanasia. However, that knowledge will never replace our desire for sex as a species or prevent a single murder. Any more or less than religion. 

Like I told Philhos, I don't know if there is or isn't a god(s).  However, if there is a being capable of creating the universe and everything in it then I an certain that being is capable being more than the simpleton caricature depicted in the Bible whose plan for salvation involves human sacrifice which replaced the previous animal sacrifice model. 

I guess the only point that I was that it is just as wrong to ridicule folk for believing, as it is for folk of a particular religion to hold bias against another individual, simply because of their particular religious beliefs.  Personally, I was raised with religion, but I choose not to practice, for a multitude of reasons.  However, I see the value in folks having something fundamental, like a religion to believe in.  Now, if that particular religion's doctrine instructs believers to convert or kill all who do not think likewise, I may have an issue.  We should look at those people a little more closely.

I come to all of this, because it appeared to me that one man was being attacked in group fashion, simply for his beliefs.  Not because he was propagating hate, just because he was expressing a view.  Even though I don't practice any organized religion, I don't think that is right.