{"id":48105,"date":"2014-11-14T12:51:49","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T19:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/14\/science-and-fundamentalism-which-is-killing-religion.html"},"modified":"2014-11-14T12:51:49","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T19:51:49","slug":"science-and-fundamentalism-which-is-killing-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/14\/science-and-fundamentalism-which-is-killing-religion.html","title":{"rendered":"Science and Fundamentalism &#8212; which is killing Religion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science is certainly killing off Religion as arbiter of objective reality. Science explores, explains, and demonstrates through prediction what the empirical world is.<\/p>\n<p>Fundamentalism coupled with religious extremism is doing a great job of killing off Religion as a guide to meaning and values, esp. by framing Religion vs. Science as a fight over the same territory; it <i>defines<\/i> religion as the objective, empirical reality &#8230; and, as it fails, it pulls the rest of Religion down with it.<\/p>\n<p>Which is a shame, because I think Religion has a lot more to offer than &quot;Women Are Inferior to Men because They Were Made Second&quot; and Young Earth Creationism and &quot;Climate Change Is a Lie because Genesis 8:22 Says So!&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/goplifer.com\/2014\/10\/07\/science-and-fundamentalism-are-killing-religion\/\">http:\/\/goplifer.com\/2014\/10\/07\/science-and-fundamentalism-are-killing-religion\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6081648401997727345\/6081648423800669106'><img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-46dv1bWsBMk\/VGZbBP10A7I\/AAAAAAAC5Wk\/SdePg7RmACQ\/primordal-sin%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=660' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/EhWWXiGTriC'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science is certainly killing off Religion as arbiter of objective reality. Science explores, explains, and demonstrates through prediction what the empirical world is. Fundamentalism coupled with religious extremism is doing a great job of killing off Religion as a guide to meaning and values, esp. by framing Religion vs. Science as a fight over the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/14\/science-and-fundamentalism-which-is-killing-religion.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Science and Fundamentalism &#8212; which is killing Religion?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/primordal-sin[1].jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43307,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/30\/by-making-religion-trump-reality-religion-suffers.html","url_meta":{"origin":48105,"position":0},"title":"By making religion trump reality, religion suffers","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 30-Jun-14 7:46pm","format":false,"excerpt":"How the Hobby Lobby decision will come back to haunt conservative Christianity. 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