tichrist 14-15)Galileo was excommunicated for saying that the earth was not the center of the universe. Horrified Christians refused to have their children taught that man came from monkeys. By doing this, religion hindered the progress which science had made. In these cases, the religious people would rather believe writings which are subject to numerous flaws instead of actual evidence, usually because the evidence gives man a less significant image of himself. All of a sudden, what was considered divine is now considered a natural act of the world. The way religion has tried to cope with science shows a great deal of insight into religion’s relationship with man. Humans would rather simply inherit truths into themselves than to find truths. Now that many of science’s facts are widely known and accepted, people find it easier to inherit certain scientific facts than some dogmatic truths.Humans used to use religion as a basis for their moral code. Before large governments were established, there was a need for some type of authority to tell people the difference between right and wrong. Tribal leaders decided to say that rules were made up by the deities. Jewish people have a rule that says that they cannot eat pork. It is hard to believe that any God would be overly concerned with what food you eat. The religious ban on pork was probably put into place after many people died from eating some bad pork. The moral code created by the leader was kosher foods, but he meant only to avoid pork because it made people sick. In modern times, if there was spoiled or very unhealthy food being used all across a country, the government would tell its citizens not to eat the food or even possibly put a ban of the food. Just in the same way, the Ten Commandments were replaced by laws and the Beatitudes were replaced by the idea that all men were created equal.What began as a simple honest concern that a leader showed his pe...
