Re:Why religion is not going away and science will not destr...
by mannykannot on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @03:01PM
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I don't get the point of your comment, not even in the context of where I originally made this suggestion. That Luther was not speaking for all christians might be a valid alternative response to the post I was replying to, but that seems orthogonal to the issue of what Luther was railing against.
Does it help to replace 'philosophers' with 'philosophically-minded theologians'?
Re:Why religion is not going away and science will not destr...
by dragonwriter on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @03:14PM
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There was a cut-and-paste error, where a quote from a different post was included rather than the quote I actually was reacting to.
It has been corrected.
Re:Why religion is not going away and science will not destr...
by mannykannot on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @08:14PM
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I think I was making a smaller point than you imagine - simply that if it came to a duel of biblical quotes, I imagine Martin Luther probably could have matched humanrebar one for one. I know I could not.
Luther's quote (as is the case of many popular quotes of the founder of Protestantism) was a direct reaction against a view opposing the quote held by the Catholic Church at the time (and, in this case, still today), not expressing a general and unifying belief of all or most religious (or even Christian) people.
So, yes, he would differ, but many religious people and institutions would differ with him on that point. The upthread quote shows Luther's attitude toward reason, but it's offering as illustrating the attitude of religion to reason fails.