true of religion but it is not true of revelation. Before I was a Christian my feelings were what mostly guided my decisions and behaviour. Now it is faith which mostly guides me. This faith can not be exercised without reason. If I don’t use my reason as well I will be prone to all kinds of error or possible danger.
In 1988, Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama said, “We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don’t stand up to experimentation, Buddha’s own words must be rejected.”
The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also, said Mark Twain.
Actually it is hard to scrutinise one’s own beliefs with the intensity, depth and dismissiveness with which we scrutinise other beliefs. This statement is true and instructive. Religion is folly if it is, as I have defined it, man in search of God, using man’s ways.
I believe in My Self – that’s enough. I believe in this life, beautiful and unique! I believe in Science! I have faith in Reason. I don’t need to show what I don’t believe in! I Believe in Human Race! I’m sure it’s beginning to see the real light, the light of Knowledge! Says Richard Phillip.
The first statement is similar to the first sin where the first people wanted to be “like god”. Belief in science is okay, so long as it is limited to the how and not the why. This statement is not rational because it talks in words of faith and belief, things which, unless there is a sound basis, defy reason and rational thinking. Knowledge can cause pride and arrogant thoughts of superiority. Knowledge does not mean improved behaviour. The caricature of the evil genius is widely used as a credible character
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