10-18-2010, 08:22 PM
Well said, Grace62. I agree with your quote that "Religion and science answer very different questions and meet different needs, I see no reason to put them in opposition to each other."
While I'm not a big fan of the guy, Benedict XIV spoke about how the 20th century's distrust of religion led to the growth of the two most destructive movements of the century: Nazism and Communism. Both political movements placed their supreme trust in science or sociological ideas, and Nazism was horrifically linked with the scientific love-fest over eugenics that was all of the rage during the first half of the 20th century. IMHO, it seems like science without a moral structure may carry us to a totalitarian state akin to 1984 or Brave New World.
While I'm not a big fan of the guy, Benedict XIV spoke about how the 20th century's distrust of religion led to the growth of the two most destructive movements of the century: Nazism and Communism. Both political movements placed their supreme trust in science or sociological ideas, and Nazism was horrifically linked with the scientific love-fest over eugenics that was all of the rage during the first half of the 20th century. IMHO, it seems like science without a moral structure may carry us to a totalitarian state akin to 1984 or Brave New World.