# the concept of faith **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [August 27, 2013, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-concept-of-faith/667270 "2013-08-27T02:07:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 355
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2013, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-concept-of-faith/667270/355 "2013-10-19T15:35:58Z")
> [@lekatt](#): > > What does it matter that we put a man on the moon and still kill each other over most everything of value. That we hold prejudices against people not like us or think differently than we do. A man on the moon is not progress nor assembling a pile of money such a grand thing. All we did is crawl out of one box into another. In religion you were told to obey a certain doctrine and in science the same thing. Theories are not realities only guesses the same as church doctrine. Science says this and God says that, when will we learn. Bzzt. That earns the warning. Focus, my friend. Make arguments, not assertions. People will pay more attention to you that way AND communication will happen. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-concept-of-faith/667270)._