@Brandon9000,
Theologians are out of your comfort zone Brandi. But what you described is exactly what they do and have been doing.
None of the scientists you approve of have ever formulated the question of how the human race gets out of the permanent **** it was in and, to some extent, is still in. ' "There must be some way outa here", said the Joker to the Thief " '.
Why would the prophets be so bad tempered if they were not in the ****. Unending. Going to continue forever by the look of things. And the prophets were an intellectual elite. Very few people since, if any, have ever matched the beauty and economy of their prose which was only written for other members of a literary and educated elite who knew the references and allusions to Paganism and other dead loss ideas.
An obvious result of the invention, so called, of the written word is a literary elite. "In the beginning was the word". How scientific is that? Like a geologist might say "in the beginning was the steel trowel". A professional in-joke so to say. Droll humour within a waking nightmare. To keep each others spirits up.
And none of the verifiable data your scientists had was ever so copious as that the theologians had when they spent a few hundred years studying the records they had on their desks in their isolated monastic fortresses from whence they issued, after devising a solution, to convert the world. (Thank **** for that eh?).
So it's really a question of whether or not we got out of the **** to some extent and whether we can get entirely free of it eventually. What do you think? Was it worth the effort and pain in your opinion? Should we betray it now?
