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Religion and science “Shouldn’t be in competition. The problem is with your (US) preachers – and your scientists. They’re stepping on each other’s toes. With big, heavy boots. They don’t understand that religion and science are there to serve different purposes. We need science to understand how everything on this planet and beyond works. . . .But we also need religion. Not for ridiculous counter-theories about things science can prove. We need it for something else, to fill a different kind of need. The need for meaning. It’s a basic need we have as humans. And it’s a need that’s beyond the realm of science. Your (US) scientists don’t understand that it’s a need they can’t fulfill no matter how man Hadron colliders and Hubble telescopes they build – and you (US) preachers don’t understand that their job is to help you discover a personal, inner sense of meaning and not behave like a bunch of zealots intent on converting the rest of the planet to their rigid, literalist view of how everyone should live their lives. In your (US) country and in the Muslim countries, religion has become a political movement, not a spiritual one.” ~ Father JeromeShare
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