Not to mention Edward Jenner, the man who invented the vaccination that cured the human race of smallpox, was an Anglican, and in fact, was the son of an Anglican vicar.
Who is it that was "scared of dying" again?
And we are making progress. Every little development in technology. Every little thing we do to improve the quality of life. It is all making progress toward the betterment of mankind.
Progress
[n. prog-res, -ruh s or, esp. British, proh-gres; v. pruh-gres]
noun
1.
a movement toward a goal or to a further or higher stage:
the progress of a student toward a degree.
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I never said "better" I said "progressed." And you yourself just admitted that we have "progressed" by admitting that houses are more convient for you than caves are. Your standard of living is better than it would have been had you lived 2,000+ years ago.
The Flat Earth Society
So you can honestly say you don't prefer living in a house with your fancy cook top stove, to sitting in a cave roasting roaches over a fire?
I don't consider sending man to the moon, finding cures for diseases, and making advancements in technology to be "digression" from believing the earth was flat and living in caves. No. I definitely meant progress.
Wow. This is news to me. I better go tell my grandfather on my father's side who is currently dying of stage 4 lung cancer to stop taking Chemotherapy so that he can be able to make it long enough to join us for family Christmas this year.
That sort of mindset in general is just not something I agree with though. Humans would not have progressed to where we are today with an "oh well, this is good enough, I guess" kind of attitude.
Except that an understanding of evolution is necessary in the medical field. Bacteria, parasites, microbes, and other pathogens are constantly evolving. You don't think that this knowledge is necessary in the treatment and prevention of diseases and illnesses in humans?
There is no such...
What if you sharing this "spiritual experience" could cause someone else to be "saved?" Would you still withhold this information from them, knowing that it would cost their soul burning in a firey inferno for eternity?