So I have a born again christian family member in their mid twenties who stated with complete confidence that there is a dome in the sky called the firmament and beyond it is where heaven is. She believes space doesn’t exist and rockets just blow up because the bible said so. She is not the brightest and normally I would let this sort of nonsense go but I work in aerospace and have multiple pieces of hardware in space so she is either calling me ignorant or a malicious agent for the devil purposely lying for her so I got pretty annoyed. I can’t find anything about this dome in a google search about religion and I suspect she ended up on a flat-earth YouTube channel that twisted a line in the bible to fit their beliefs and didn’t actually get it from her church. I know its probably hopeless to help her understand how dumb and frankly insulting this belief is but I can possibly talk some reason if I understand the source.
Are there any major or minor religions, christian or other that believe space is a lie and only god is outside our atmosphere?
Look up the Christian philosophical concept, intelligent design
“Philosophical”.
It’s creationism, pure and simple.
Never said I agreed with it. Just pointed him in the direction of some of the more progressive ideologies.
ID believes in science and evolution, but believes that it was part of “God’s” plan.
Creationists denounce those who believe in ID as atheists
I think we should push religion to be more progressive, and bring them closer to everyone else’s reality. If not, the world will only become more segmented
Utterly false. ID is a “wedge strategy” to insert creationism in science teaching and law making.
I think we should cut totally any influence of religion in education and politics. And then use education to help believers realize themselves that religion is nonsense and that they should drop it.
“Push religion” is leaving space to religions to be considered acceptable ideas. That space should be reduced to zero by exposing its absurdity.
There will always be people following religion. By making such a finite divide, and not inviting individuals from both worlds of thought to conversation, you’re creating a larger divide. I think we want people sharing ideas, and being okay with each other, even though their worlds are different.
I think the world would be better without religion, but that’s impossible.
There will always be people who can’t handle reality by themselves and need to rely on the idea that there’s a higher power looking out for them.
What we have today is a terrible divide, built by extremists on both sides. One saying you’re going to hell, and the other saying your train of thought has no place in this world.
People will be people, and you gotta do what you can to get a common ground where everyone can exist together.