For all you science geeks, here are a couple articles you might find interesting from two completely different perspectives: are we living in a computer simulation (think 'The Matrix') and even more startling, intelligent design just got a peer reviewed study.
The modern concept that 'science must only tell us what we want to hear' drives me batty, that is like asking a scale to only display the weight you want to see. Science should be an objective tool, not a subjective weapon. Many published studies can't be replicated and some are just made up to enrich the publisher while anything that disagrees with our modern mores is enough to blackball your career, whether it challenges evolution, modern social constructs, or our determination that the sky is truly falling and only mass extinction of the human race can stop it. How often do we hear angry pseudo-scientists claiming that they are being treated like Galileo when they are the ones proclaiming that the sun revolves around the earth and that everyone else had better agree with them or else? It is the job of science to support or disprove natural phenomena, it is not meant to viewed through a political lens, it never proves anything, and it shouldn't be used to measure things in the abstract: love, faith, ethics, philosophy, the supernatural, meaning, purpose...when it does, which seems to be the case in this strange modern era, it is become a religion, a faith in its own right, with its own dogmas and ethical code and mythology, which is exactly how 'the experts' act, no wonder they are far more ready to believe everything is a computer simulation rather than admit their science is as mythic as they accuse Christianity of being. They are the modern variant of the pharisees that Jesus confronted in His own day, 'you shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in' (Matthew 23:13).
The idea seems to be 'believe anything but God,' and I've seen some very curious examples in a variety of disciplines and situations, including this one! The simplest, the most obvious explanation is defied in preference to some other complicated, ridiculous supposition with all the confidence of the serpent in the Garden proclaiming, 'ye can be gods!' 'Did God really say?' was also his postulation and we still ask it today. I love the people trying to wrap our modern sexual mores in a shabby cloak of Christianity and proclaim the resulting monstrosity as the 'true church, as Jesus intended,' minding me much of the donkey wrapped up in a lion's skin and called 'Aslan' in 'The Last Battle.' And no one can understand why the liberal, modern denominations are stagnating? Why play pretend with the Gospel when you get neither the benefits of true religion or the pleasures of its many secular alternatives? In Revelation we are told to be either hot or cold, not lukewarm, which is just insulting to oneself and God, either choose for or against, don't rewrite the tale to suit your own agenda. Paul warned that 'we of all men are most miserable if Christ be not raised,' meaning that if Jesus did what He said He did, there is some point in living as a Christian ought, but if he didn't, what's the point? All the pain and none of the joy, all the trouble and none of the peace? It makes as much sense as trying to twist PETA's views to support the beef industry!
Somehow both science and the liberal 'christian' faith are both telling us exactly the same thing: whatever the liberal left elitists think is the truth, always has been, always will be and anyone who thinks different is stupid, uncivilized, and inhuman. That's why you need to consume material from non-social media and network news and mainstream papers, be it your grandfather's recollections of the second world war or a classic book or taking your dog for a hike in some beautiful place sans your phone or singing a wonderful song or laughing with friends or watching a good movie or cooking a good meal or whatever, just get away from the incessant, remorseless 'words, words, words,' of those that would have you react without thought, reply without knowing, think without understanding, shut out the noise, take a peek at something that is not 'safe, appropriate, socially acceptable, publicly approved, popular.' Find out for yourself, silence the nattering heads, discover what you believe and why, instead of merely giving in from sheer exhaustion to the unending chatter of the socially acceptable gospel, just another blurry eyed, vacant minded sheep in a dull and boundless flock. The real lion isn't tame or safe, but He's good, but alas that we prefer a preposterous little donkey in His stead! Take a good, hard look at your god, whatever or whomever it be, is it merely an ass in a lion's skin, ridiculous, petty, and powerless, or can He make the mountains smoke and tremble, cause realities to crumble with a thought or produce whole worlds out of nothingness? What did God say and why is the serpent so determined that we never figure it out? That is truly the answer to 'life the universe and everything,' the number 42 not withstanding!
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