VYWang wrote:
How is that (The church persecuting scientific research) different then the way that most (not all) atheists persecute religious people for having faith in something that can't they (the atheists) can't feel or see?
The aggressive atheist & his religious cousin are two sides of the same coin. I wasn't arguing about that.
VYWang wrote:
Faith does not necessarily mean make belief. In the medieval times people had faith that rain would fall and their seeds would grow so they could feed their families. If you didn't have faith in that, you wouldn't plant any seeds and you would starve. Our civilizations are based on faith.
Just because I'm not religious doesn't mean I can't argue for them, even if I'm not as effective as a priest or whatnot.
I was talking about faith in regards to a deity.