Comments on: Stein says science leads to killing people http://www.fireandknowledge.org/archives/2008/04/29/stein-says-science-leads-to-killing-people/ A web site by Joshua Sowin that addresses culture, books, technology, ecology, religion, and other topics. Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:50:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Alex Richardson http://www.fireandknowledge.org/archives/2008/04/29/stein-says-science-leads-to-killing-people/#comment-68714 Alex Richardson Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:05:07 +0000 http://www.fireandknowledge.org/archives/2008/04/29/stein-says-science-leads-to-killing-people/#comment-68714 Science on it's own, like religion, won't do much. Science can kill people, it's been indirectly responsible for a lot of deaths what with the whole "Oh, it requires science to make a gun and gunpowder," and "Oh, yeah, the atomic bomb, our bad," but then religion also has to deal with the Crusades, burning people at the stake, the suicide bombers, the riots, the uprisings, the killings, the beheadings, all of that. Far more monstrous things. A lot can kill people, people are frail things. Science, thankfully, saves a lot nowadays, in fact, it gave us medicine! Sterlization, and proper food cleansing, and better crop yields, and better transport, and enabled a lot of religious art to come to fruition (Brunelleschi gave us the gear-shift and a cathedral). What I'm building to is that if a person wants to kill another person, they can, and they can justify it with science and religion and the gun they've got and their skin color and whether the person likes Neil Diamond or team-kills or whatever. Science is by no means a complete evil, but I can't really find the complete good in religion Mr. Stein is alluding to. Science on it’s own, like religion, won’t do much. Science can kill people, it’s been indirectly responsible for a lot of deaths what with the whole “Oh, it requires science to make a gun and gunpowder,” and “Oh, yeah, the atomic bomb, our bad,” but then religion also has to deal with the Crusades, burning people at the stake, the suicide bombers, the riots, the uprisings, the killings, the beheadings, all of that. Far more monstrous things.

A lot can kill people, people are frail things. Science, thankfully, saves a lot nowadays, in fact, it gave us medicine! Sterlization, and proper food cleansing, and better crop yields, and better transport, and enabled a lot of religious art to come to fruition (Brunelleschi gave us the gear-shift and a cathedral).

What I’m building to is that if a person wants to kill another person, they can, and they can justify it with science and religion and the gun they’ve got and their skin color and whether the person likes Neil Diamond or team-kills or whatever.

Science is by no means a complete evil, but I can’t really find the complete good in religion Mr. Stein is alluding to.

]]> By: Joey Mannon http://www.fireandknowledge.org/archives/2008/04/29/stein-says-science-leads-to-killing-people/#comment-68695 Joey Mannon Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:47:38 +0000 http://www.fireandknowledge.org/archives/2008/04/29/stein-says-science-leads-to-killing-people/#comment-68695 I'm not sure of the context of the conversation in this movie, but Stein didn't say religion leads to a very glorious place, but that Love of God and compassion and empathy does. No doubt terrible atrocities have been committed in the name of religion. But I doubt God, compassion and empathy had anything to do with it. I’m not sure of the context of the conversation in this movie, but Stein didn’t say religion leads to a very glorious place, but that Love of God and compassion and empathy does. No doubt terrible atrocities have been committed in the name of religion. But I doubt God, compassion and empathy had anything to do with it.

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