Embracing Science
A fundamentalist is a person who sees everything in black and white. Every word is fixed. It has been written. It must be obeyed.
There is no nuance.
There is nothing to discuss.
Black and white. No doubt. For a chosen people.
Rejecting all other interpretation. Picking and choosing the texts that suit.
Of the thousands of faiths followed by mankind they adhere to one and reject all else.
A seat of intolerance. A message of division. A cause of hatred.
Yet the world is not black and white.
The world is full of colour, wonder and awe.
Embracing Science
We embrace science –
The Kalashnikov
Explosive vest
And the IED.
There is no latitude
Or room for doubt,
Or tolerance
Of any kind;
For it is written.
We reject the Hadron Collider,
Skylab
And the microscope.
We pick and choose
On our trip
Into the past.
What use for the Richter scale?
Or vaccination?
When all is God’s will.
Opher 18.5.2016
And it seems getting older either opens your eyes to the truth of how gray things or, or you go just plain blind! At least that’s been my experience with folks when it comes to religion and science.
I agree. Instead of living in a world of colour, love, beauty, tolerance and equality some people stick to a rigid doctrine that betrays life. The older I get the angrier I seem to get. I guess it’s frustration.
Try being a BELIEVER and experiencing that kind of frustration.
I can’t imagine it Cheryl. As soon as I discover the flaw in the system I lose faith in it. Religion, of all persuasions, seems shot through with holes – now spirituality……………
I think that’s why I’m so drawn to Celtic Mysticism. The Celts honored everything. There was a “god” or a “spirit” for every hill, well, what have you. To me it just says that they were more aware that all things are one. I’ve heard that everything (including inanimate objects) vibrate at their own frequency. Is that true?
I think it is Cheryl.
I went to a really interesting demonstration in London at some institute or other back in the sixties. They put this fungal spore powder on metal sheets and passed a vibration through it. By altering the vibration they could get all manner of shapes. It came together into a ball or spread out spinning like galaxies. It formed into organis patterns like cells. I was fascinated. It looked to me as if the shapes of nature were all there. All governed by vibration.
Too much to read things into it – but it was quite fascinating and thought provoking.
So cool!
So we’re all vibrations in the dust Cheryl. Do you think there’s a poem in that?
😀 Well I don’t know. Why don’t you play around with it and see what you come up with! 😉
I may do just that. But right now I’m off to a concert by the great Nick Harper!
Hope you have a fabulous time!!!
Certain to!
Knowledge without compassion and common sense can be dangerous, as your eloquent poem indicates.
There is no room for common sense or compassion in the head of a fanatic. Cheers Dave – Nick Harper tomorrow night!
Have a great time, Opher!
Bound to!