Yetos
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I do think it's a great misunderstanding to think that science and religion are opposed. Science, as an epistemological construct, is based on an empirical-rational (that is to say, analytical, that is to say, scientific) understanding of the world. However, it is not strictly an ontological construct in that it does not claim that its worldview is the truth (although this is how it is usually viewed today). Religion, on the other hand, is definitely an ontological as well as epistemological construct, and also (very importantly), an ethical/moral one(unlike science). Religion is based not on a "scientific" view of the world, but rather operates through intuition and feeling, uniting man to his environment and giving it a transcendent meaning to himself. In a way, religion is much more akin to art that it is to science.
I think that what has happened is that science has become the "orthodox" (one could say default) ontological system in the modern western world. What this causes is that many people try to justify their religious beliefs through science (as happens all-too-frequently in the U.S, a prime example is "intelligent design") and thus end up making religion in general seem stupid. Religion, which is based in the supernatural, need not rely on the natural to justify itself, in my opinion. One cannot play backgammon on a chess board, or vice-versa.
In my opinion, science and religion actually compliment each other in many cases.
That being said, given that Europe is a predominantly Christian continent, much of the values and ethics of modern Europe (and Western civilization in general) are Christian in origin. Indeed, one could say that the "genealogy" of modern western ethics looks something like this:
-The Enlightment
-Renassaince humanism
-Classical (Graeco-Roman) Civilization
-Christianity
there are 3 kinds of christianity
one of them is this
Love or maybe. or I am the light,
thou shall not Kill
Starts from 324 AD
Systematic cleansing and destruction of all ancient religions
Systematic genocide of Greeks and other nationalities,
remember 330 AD Constantine took the statue of Zeus from Olympia to Nova Roma
1 of seven wonders, the faces of Jesus are >75% based on that statue,
city Bayeux same year priests of apollo were lynched
335 Constantine Crusifies all non christian priest in minor asia (how many)
359 the first gather camps in Skythopolis Syria
Holocaust of Greek that follow old religion
363 emperror Ιουλιανος (Julian) declares religion liberties,
he was murdered by a first degree (diakonos) cleric, fan of Basileios Bishop of Ceasareia - Kappadokia
Church names apostat ? why?
remember Hypateia etc, Υπατεια
the massacres of Vellisarius in Italy
and the religious wars,
simply after enlightment the corporation Church (trade mark +) has limited power cause people are more educated and do not fear.
Modern Europes theories are described well in what Kazantzakis wrote
I hope nothing (kingdom come)
I fear nothing (Dante's inferno)
I am free ( I have clear mind)
100 years of war !!!!!!!!
BESIDES WHICH ARE THE CHRISTIAN VALUES?
western church,
Franciscans ?
Jesuits?
Dolcinians?
Knights of temple?
Bishops with porfyra (kings colour)
church as cleric is nothing more than corporation,
religion is a private subject
but truth is not being told clear,
the values are older
monks although are based in ST Antony's tradition (Egypt)
their philosophy springs from Diogenes
Europe's value are based in Freedom,
Christianity teach us to bow,
(how many times you read he word bow-kneel in Bibble)
364 AD
Emperror Flavius
order to burn the last bibliotheque
Antioch-eia Syria,
remember all we know for ancient world is after that we found in garbage and ashes of the burn, or some hidden, by some religious who fought church, like Knights or orthodox monks, or some forgotten western monasteries that hide them from upper cleric,
the last written of archimedes are found in a christian book, with a machine,
the book was erased and above some wrote christian preach,
is european values same with the ones of Ambrosios of milan (mediolanum)
385-388 Maternos Kynigios (Ματερνος Κυνηγιος)
means the Hunter of holy mother (Myriam) estimated that killed 400 000 Greeks in Greece,
in order to purify the land from the 'pagani' (peasants)
we needed 1300 - 1500 years after the Yapateia torture, to send a woman to a school, and allow a woman to teach,
Pavlism is vertical, no woman must teach ( the original is teach, not preach)
at Byzantines stopes about 800-900 Ad
at western Europe later
at east Europe no body knows when,
second value
monks and poverty,
just find out who was Diogenes who lived in a big crate that was used for oil or wine,
third value
well there must be something good, but I can not find it,
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