R.C. Sproul

And we see this more and more frequently and more and more vehemently being expressed that religion seems to be the thing that keeps people bound up in the dark ages of superstition and of being closed in their minds to understanding the reality of the ways of this world as it has been discovered through the investigation and resources of science.

There's still a toleration for religion, but religion now seems to be treated to a wider and wider and wider gap from the scientific arena.

It's as if science is something for the mind, for research,

for intelligence, and religion is something emotional, personal, for feelings.

I just listened to a conversation from people the other day who were talking about different religions, and the basic thesis was, hey, everybody has a right to believe what they want to believe, and the main thing is that you have a religion.

And if you're Jewish, if you're Muslim, if you're Buddhist, if you're Christian, whatever you are, the important thing is that you believe in something.

And everybody at the table agreed with that thesis.

The real important thing is that you believe in something.

I wanted to get up on a table and say, does truth matter?

The important thing to me is to believe in the truth.

I'm not satisfied with believing in anything.

If what I believe in is not true, if it's superstitious, if it's fallacious, I want to be liberated from it.

But the mentality of our day seems to be in matters of religion, truth is insignificant.

We learn truth from science.

We get good feelings from our religion.

Again this article went on to say that in former days where religious superstition reigned supreme over people's minds, God was attributed as being the cause for everything.

God or some element of the supernatural world.

If you had a stomach ache, then that was the influence of some kind of evil demon like Peter Payne jumping on your back or on your tummy and making you sick or some invisible angel.

Now we know that it's not invisible angels that are afflicting us.

It's invisible microorganisms that are doing it, and those microorganisms are not of an angelic nature.