I don't really do the suspension of belief movies anymore, which is a complaint I get a lot. My wife likes that stuff, but I'm more about real life. So, while I'm watching "The First 48", she'll watch Blue Bloods or CSI. But your point is taken.
But one has to sort of suspend belief to be deeply engaged in religion to begin with. It never rubbed off on me, but my older brother is a serious Christian and believes the whole thing. He's not stupid, he just got indoctrinated and it is still with him.
I try not to take sides about it. If someone wants to believe, who am I to tell them they are wrong about it?
As to the scientific connection, there's a lot of science we don't understand. Einstein was very disturbed about what he called, "spooky action at a distance", the idea that the very core of science would be probabilistically determined was to him the equivalent of, "There is stuff in there we just don't know about."
Not being religious I tend not to be convinced by black magic. OTOH, there is a lot of ground science hasn't covered and still a lot of walls science runs into where the answer is, "We don't know." I try to remain open minded about it and stay out of peoples' way so they can believe what they will. |
