Post #164 "The Search for Reality IV"

Anything less for science than conquering death is a loss of attaining the goal of Perfection. And a loss of Perfection creates death. The perpetual theme running through creation seems to be that 'we must try again and again' until we reach our goal of Perfection. We feel that the attainment of Perfection is our destiny and so we heavily invest in science and technology. If we think we have problems now, just try to deal with this one---what would the world be like when there is no death; when nothing dies? Would it be heaven, or would it be hell? Where lies that state of Perfection? What qualities can we give to defining and creating our God to come up to our expectations? What God are we creating? And is that God we have crated just like us?

So it seems that science, as well as,religion, can be held responsible  for the terrifying and uncertain state of the world we live in...the world we have created. Science can be held responsible through its technologies, for creating a world that is threatening destruction to its own existence. Is this the path to Perfection or is this the path to death? Where doe the quest for Perfection take us, to life or to death? Confronted by this observation, what then, is the underlying reason for science's challenge to religion? What is at the root of the issue?

What could those original challengers of the sixteenth century Age of Enlightenment have against the system of religion? Did the traditions of religion tread on the public or the personal values of an emerging New Age? Did those proponents of the New Age have problems with accepting wars that were based on values that were not one's own newly emerging values? Were there problems with accepting the divisions and prejudices of a system whose divisions and prejudices were not one's own? Were there problems with freedom, especially where one felt controlled, even though one would not hesitate to employ one's own wars or form one's own divisions and prejudices or control and regulate someone else if it served one's own purpose? Were there problems with a new system that tossed the controllers and the controlled into an upside-down and backward and forward controversy? Or was there a problem with who controlled life and death? Was there a problem with who claimed to be the God of creation? What of Perfection? Did each age have its own definition of Perfection-thereby each age having its own definition of God?