Saturday, November 05, 2005

Religion v Science...or not.

While I have many disagreements with the Roman Catholic Church (contraception and the role of women in the church being chief among them), it sounds as if they are trying to distance themselves from the US conservative religious establishment by affirming science as an arbitor of truth.

Religion divorced from reason runs the risk of falling prey to fundamentalism, warns Cardinal Paul Poupard, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture. (the rest here)

Poupard's statement may sound like common sense, but in light of this, sadly, it needs to be re-affirmed.

Thanks to Holy Weblog.

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