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Now Stoney, setting aside considerations about the entire Bible and focusing solely on the Gospels, where do you find dogmas? Let’s try to talk about the Church and the Christian message as two completely separate things. A small example? Jesus was baptized, but did he ever baptize anyone? Or did he perhaps say that one must be baptized? It’s a dogma of the church. As for the historical truths about Jesus; who cares, what matters is the content of his message, the morality we find in it, how his message can comfort us, and if someone reading it feels nothing, well, too bad, it will be for another life. In the end, I reiterate that religion is not important for our spiritual evolution; we can be Catholics or atheists or whatever we want, what matters is our conduct. Regarding your comment 85, I think someone studying anthropology could respond to you appropriately; I just wanted to say that the first power structures, i.e., tribal chiefs, arose more as judicial power than temporal power, in the sense that they were established to resolve disputes between the peoples of various tribes. You see, there was a custom that when meeting someone from outside your lineage, one simply tried to kill them, provided the other didn’t do so first.

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Dear Psycro, even knowing that you hate religions and consider yourself allergic to spiritual matters, you never fail to engage in these debates. I have the impression that you are seeking something; materialism is not satisfying you. Perhaps you are too proud to admit it, but I can sense something when I read your comments. Leave aside religious institutions, strip away your preconceptions for a moment, and connect your self with the universe. Don't you feel anything?

Mystery of faith...

@Stoney: what if God is not a human conception, whose would it be? The attributes assigned to God, are they human? It seems to me that they are not. God does not regulate life down to the smallest details; rather, He has left man with free will, the freedom to choose what is best for his own existence, and from this arise our moral dilemmas.

Reflecting that the true meaning of religion has been lost. Wouldn't it be better if we simply spoke of spirituality, of our relationship with the unknown, with the unfathomable depths of our soul?

Since many of you identify as agnostics, I would be curious to know if you believe in the soul, in life after death.

@Eletto says: "But I ask, can a man who defines himself as a scientist truly be on the side of science and simultaneously believe in a god? A god who is the antithesis of scientific rationality?" It's clear that he can; it's completely normal, just not very common. Personally, I find no contradiction between science and spirituality; in fact, the more science progresses, the clearer everything becomes.

@Eletto says: "But I ask, can a man who defines himself as a scientist truly be on the side of science and simultaneously believe in a god? A god who is the antithesis of scientific rationality?" It's clear that he can; it's completely normal, just not very common. Personally, I find no contradiction between science and spirituality; in fact, the more science progresses, the clearer everything becomes.

I am perplexed and a bit indignant, but not for the reasons you write in your review, rather because it seems to me that this guy has discovered hot water. It’s clear that God cannot be explained rationally; otherwise, God would be a laboratory God, to be analyzed – please! Then, I notice that while discussing religion, only Catholicism is considered. What about the Eastern religions? And hermetic philosophy? (which is not a religion but perhaps the mother of Western ones), explained, sometimes allegorically, things that science is only now discovering. And by the way, did we really need to write a book to prove that the Bible has no scientific basis? What futility! Darwin alone dismantled the tale of Eden. The Bible in many parts is written in allegories, addressing men of a different intellectual level, who lived several centuries before us. Moreover, I see no contradiction between science and religion; science and mathematics are divine laws, which, discovered by man, help him understand better the world in which he lives. With what arrogance do scientists engage in investigating spiritual matters, when they have only just realized that "simple matter" is much more complex than they believed and are going a bit out of their minds. Newtonian science itself functions only as an approximation of reality; it is not reality, it is not exact. Perhaps they want to scientifically prove whether we have consciousness or not? Or measure love? A great man said, two thousand years ago: render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's.