There is no "truth" accessible to finite minds. We can only try to get as close to it as possible, and the only way we can learn (approach truth) is through our fallible senses. We learn as we live, and of course in the modern world a lot of that comes through organized education.
Religion is generally anti-truth. You no doubt see this in Islam, but are blind to it in Christianity, but it is the same thing. People don't learn religion, they are indoctrinated with it -- it becomes belief or ideology based on emotions and propaganda and , not opinion based on evidence.
I have taken classes or similar studies in Catholicism, Islam, Mormonism and Jehovah's Witnesses. None of them use rationality except pious frauds (the idea that saving a soul is more important than being honest) and half-truths (telling the part they like and leaving out the rest). Prayer and community and promises of happiness and afterlife (none of us want to die) and tradition and authority and beautiful buildings and music, and, of course, police power where it is still permitted, and on and on. This is all, when used to persuade, invalid propaganda.
That is how science (opinion) and religion (belief) differ. Religions make a virtue of faith, and a vice of doubt, while science sees faith as a sin and rejoices over doubt, which is what stimulates the progress of science.
Religion is generally anti-truth. You no doubt see this in Islam, but are blind to it in Christianity, but it is the same thing. People don't learn religion, they are indoctrinated with it -- it becomes belief or ideology based on emotions and propaganda and , not opinion based on evidence.
I have taken classes or similar studies in Catholicism, Islam, Mormonism and Jehovah's Witnesses. None of them use rationality except pious frauds (the idea that saving a soul is more important than being honest) and half-truths (telling the part they like and leaving out the rest). Prayer and community and promises of happiness and afterlife (none of us want to die) and tradition and authority and beautiful buildings and music, and, of course, police power where it is still permitted, and on and on. This is all, when used to persuade, invalid propaganda.
That is how science (opinion) and religion (belief) differ. Religions make a virtue of faith, and a vice of doubt, while science sees faith as a sin and rejoices over doubt, which is what stimulates the progress of science.
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