WK 5/6: Beyond Belief 6

So many great speakers in this session to actually think this was one of my favorite beyond belief sessions. More examples out of the bible came out in this one and were discussed. When Susan was talking about how in the bible it reads a story of Abraham listening to God's advice to sacrifice his own son, now why would a man that tends to love each and every one of us no matter what, tell a father to do that to his son? Was this actually an event that occurred or could it of been a tale passed down on to many generations to finally sit in front of us all? I liked her saying on tales. Tales give some kind of sense of the world or just literally gives up on the term sense itself. Her way of making the human mind think took me away. One favorite line that she pointed out was " Things are good because God loves them or is is it because god loves them, they are good" It plays tricks on the mind and just confuses me even more. That is what critical thinkings main goal is, right? to confuse the mind and actually think about what actually can be true and not false. And she finishes off with science is one of the most wonderful things in this world that humans created and just by saying that, how does she think that we are progressing morality? Science will go up and down, but i think that for all the down falls it will gain much more success and respect in future.
Now the nest speaker i liked a lot as well because the examples he gave as a little kid took me back when i was one, and i had similar thoughts to those of his. I use to think that religion was just be one with God and get closer to him, be good and follow his rules for a perfect life and a righteous passage way into heaven. Now all that is behind me and religion stands somewhere totally different in my life. Religion is about therapy and politics because all is does it make someone think they are feeling better because they are doing what they think is right, have faith or compassion with God. I also agree with him 100 percent on how myths are confused with how things are and moral ideas. Too many stories are passed down generation to generation and of course just because of that you cant expect everything to be true since things are added and extracted from every story out there. And ill end with the saying that Weinberg stated before, in which was kept in Beth's mind: "we need to wake up from the long nightmare of religious belief" It explains itself.