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Title: Theological Question
Date Posted: Sat Oct/09/10 at 7:57pm

Turbine
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If religion is the science of the unknown, and science is knowledge of the known, what if a greater being became known? What job would religion have, since the greater being knew everything?


[Edited by Turbine on 9/Oct/10 at 8:00PM]
Date Posted: Sat Oct/09/10 at 7:58pm

W@W Podcaster
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What?
Date Posted: Sat Oct/09/10 at 8:00pm

Turbine
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Think about it. If you posted before I typed the actual question, then sorry. I accidentally pressed post.
Date Posted: Sat Oct/09/10 at 8:04pm

W@W Podcaster
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Some people need religion. Without it, they become sorrowful meatbags of hopelessness.
Date Posted: Sat Oct/09/10 at 8:06pm

Turbine
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That wasn't what the question was about though. . .
Date Posted: Sat Oct/09/10 at 8:07pm

W@W Podcaster
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The job that religion would have is to keep people form being sorrowful meatbags of hoplessness.
Date Posted: Sat Oct/09/10 at 8:12pm

Turbine
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How though?
Date Posted: Sat Oct/09/10 at 8:19pm

W@W Podcaster
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I think that religion was created just because people wanted to think that their lives, and deaths would matter. Without religion, what is there to hope to see when you die. If everybody thought things through coldly and rationally about everything, there would be no thoughts of an afterlife, or god, or that stuff. There would be many many more questions, of course, because nobody would know how that universe was created, or anything like that. The mysticism of religion tries to explain that. Without religion there would be many confused, and unhappy people.
Date Posted: Sun Oct/10/10 at 1:43am

Ephemerance
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To answer your original question,

Saint Thomas Aquinas was a famous medieval theologian who commonly addressed this question through the necessity of faith without knowing. I don't know how far you want to get into this discussion, but feel free to keep the ball rolling if you want a more comprehensive response :p
Date Posted: Sun Oct/10/10 at 8:32am

Turbine
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Joined: 26-Oct-09

The thing is that the entity would be able to answer the question of the afterlife.
Date Posted: Sun Oct/10/10 at 9:02am

psyche
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Religion exists to tell about the unknown using faith. Even if a omniscient being were to give all the answers we would have to take it on faith that the answers were true until we were able to prove otherwise. That shows that religion is the exercise of faith in lieu of proof. Religion is not a science, but acceptance of answers without scientific proof. To show that in the ancient past religions would be based on natural forces quite often. The sun was one force that was quite prominent. It became a known quantity through science, and now is not worshiped by almost any group that understands it scientifically. If a omniscient being were to come to us and tell us all the unknown, and we were to be able to prove them, then there would be no need for religion. It would become universal law as opposed to being religion.
Date Posted: Sun Oct/10/10 at 4:12pm

RedPanda
Posts: 174
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If religion were about the unknown and greater beings became known, well, religions could turn toasted other unknowns, even greater beings, or deny the new known beings and stay the course. I think denying the new beings would be the move most religions take, especially if the new greater beings don't fit into their religion very well.
Date Posted: Fri Oct/15/10 at 7:07am

Turbine
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Another thing, could a being above existence drop down to existence? Since we are in existence, can we drop down to non-existence?
Date Posted: Fri Oct/15/10 at 11:33am

newb
Posts: 175
Joined: 02-Feb-10

This may sound ignorant, but if you want to be non-existent, kill yourself.