Visiondude:
Is God unhappy with us expanding our minds. Would he be happier if we believed the world was flat, and that the sun revolved around the earth. If we were meant to be so "in the dark" then why were we created "in gods image".
If you can find the site that the story originated, you will find comments from likeminded people as yourself. I knew when I posted the story that religious zealots would crawl out of the woodwork, but the story was not mine to edit.
I am sorry to tell you that man has not finished learning. You can crawl back under your rug and hope that we forget about science (such a sin). If medicine saves someones life whose side are you on then.
The theories put out in that story do not discount the possibilities of Gods. No matter what, Humans will always have some sorts of deities although their forms may differ. i.e. Now we know thunder and lightning is caused by warm and cold fronts meeting, there is less chances people will bow before Thor (If you've heard of him).
The author touched on Jesus. So what. I believe Jesus is god as well (surprised). I just believe it in a different way. I believe that his own faith was so firm as to allow his resonance with the existing God plane of existence. In essence he Joined with Him. If that is how I rationalize my beliefs then again I say so what. There are a lot more people in the world who do not believe in Jesus at all than do. In fact over 3/4 of the world believes in reincarnation.
Maybe us science followers are looking for the truth. The church deemed which Gospels were "fit" enough to go into the bible, yet every word was written by a man. If there were so many Prophets around 2000 years ago, who says there can be none now? The Old testament says it is a sin not to wear tassles on your clothes, and people should wear hair coverings. Do you? Or are you prepared for a life in hell. Come on just a frilly little tassle could save you from the fiery furnace!
If god gave us intuition, telepathic abilities, and reason, then why would he not want us to use them. It is the most spiritual people around that practice meditation and right mind activities. I have stood in church and heard Yoga is a sin. ???????
I started this forum for people interested in psychic activities, I have told you before, if you cannot keep an open mind and insist on comparing everything to centuries old beliefs without allowing some room for modification then you are in the wrong forum.
"The most beautiful and profound emotion we can experience is the
sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to
whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder, and stand
rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that which is impenetrable
to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the
most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in
their primitive forms. This knowledge, this feeling, is the center of
true religion."
- Albert Einstein
For as long as man has inhabited the earth, he has looked to the
heavens. Why? Because it was always there. Because he could learn
more about himself and the world in which he lived. Because he could
learn how to get along in that world. Today we continue to look at
the heavens for the same reason. Some things never change. Or do
they?
We take for granted the most mundane things in our lives. When it
is dark, we turn on the lights. When we are hungry, we heat food in
the microwave oven. If we want to talk to someone, we pick up the
telephone, and if they are not there, we can leave a voicemail
message. The news of the world is delivered to our door, our TV and
our computer. Most of us can't conceive of life without these things
and yet, for most of our history, none of them existed.
These are stunning technological powers, and we take them for
granted. Yet as wondrous as they are, and even in full view of the
majestic history of science that has illuminated their underlying
phenomena, they pale in comparison to the wonders that await us at
the turn of the millennium. As we now look up again through our
telescopes, and down again through our microscopes, we see the
fingerprints of the gods, the evidence of revolutions more wondrous
than any seen this century, revolutions to boggle the imagination
Good-luck to you under your carpet