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Poster: jimmy
Caption: I feel the problem may be when people come to a religion like neo paganism their are all kind of different history beening told that if you evoled with an idea that you thought was true and you find out that their was no proof for those ideas. You become very untrusting of your religion, mainly if people made all kind claims that aren't true that are my feels on wicca and neo paganism

Poster: Gregory Wonderwheel
Caption: As a Buddhist who grew up Protestant Christian, I whole heartedly agree. Reason is the foundation of faith. Belief is the understanding of the many things (dharmas). Faith is the awakening to the One Mind (Dharma). Both belief and faith are consonant with reason since any belief that is unreasonable should not be believed and any faith that is unreasonable is not fruitful. Of course, there is a dogma of reason that perverts even reason, one form of which is scientism or the fundamentalist dogma of science that is not actually science or reasonable because it forgets that all scientific belief is based on tested hypothesis not dogmatic authority.

Poster: Barbara Owens
Caption: Splendidly written!

Poster: Florence Okoye
Caption: I think it says a lot that I am a Christian who agress with Gregory (what also interests me is that terms like Dharma have a Christian counterpart: I wish more people would realise that because then discussions like this would come a lot easier to us...). One can reason one's faith: that is evident from the number of small sects/denominations that spring out from the basic 'religion'. People have really thought about their faith and have managed to come up with deciding that some aspect simply is not logical, and thus create a new 'faith'. It is that aspect of religious development that makes me wary of statements like 'faith vs reason', even if I can understand what is actually meant by it. In this day and age, it is really a matter of war between fundamentalism, religious and scientific, not a war between faith and reason. When one forgets the analogue nature of human interpretation, then one begins the path down to 'fundie-ville'.

Poster: beth kubocki
Caption: because i believe that god is within each one of us , i believe that at times god does speek through man, and that finding the similarity in the stories from one culture might be an indication that god is telling us something about the nature of life. that said i believe the bible is full of lots of stuff that is just spin and not gods words at all. when in history has man not spun a story for the political benifet of his people or party,therefore i find ittotally unfair and unreasonable to allow any government to try to say what is gods word. the only true communication we can say we received from god is the nature all around us, and that nature is without political bounderies. how dare anyone say god gave any part of this wounderful world to any one group. we are all gods children and this land belongs to all of us.don't look for messages in any scripture whish was spun by man look only for god in all living things.

Poster: Kate lumley
Caption: I don't believe that faith and science are in conflict in monotheistic religions because they see the world as sinful or fallen. Science is the knowledge of the everyday and not of the spiritual. The problem arises because people want to make claims of the everyday using religion. They want to say God made man as an organism distinct from the animals. They want to say that life ought be lived the way the book tells people to live. Their God is a lawmaker.