Comment on I believe science but I don't understand science. Does that make me religious?
eezeebee@lemmy.ca 8 months agoThe key concept here is belief without understanding.
That’s part of it, but not all of it.
If you look at definitions of religious:
having a strong belief in a god or gods
a · the service and worship of God or the supernatural ; b · belief in or devotion to religious faith or observance ; c · the state of a person in the religious life.
Belief in science does not require a belief in a god or gods.
It does not require the worship of god or the “supernatural” - a healthy fascination is plenty, but optional.
It does not require devotion to anything.
Science is the best we can explain the world around us, and if old theories are proven wrong, it’s not infallible- we simply accept new knowledge with an open mind. Religion tends to do the opposite and deny it.
So no, you may or may not be religious, but a belief in science has nothing to do with it.
redballooon@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Having grown up in a religious household, these definitions seem more restrictive to me that they should be. Religious people see religious behavior even where there is no supernatural god involved. In their eyes, the god of an atheist soccer fan is soccer, and they see much of his behavior as just as religious as theirs. It’s just a wrong god, and thus bad.
And from that point of view OP’s question is very very valid.