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>>6122448
You're speaking in absolutes, and trying to position YOUR truth as the only truth. YOU see science and faith as incompatible; you do so with no regard for the possibility that I may feel differently. Indeed, you might insist that I am flat out wrong.
But what if my personal ideology included a beckoning alien mind beyond that speaks to us through technology and culture, that gradually shapes us in its image through evolution? What if I believe that the delusion of the previous millennia was hell and demons, whereas the delusion of this one is eternal nothingness? What if I've simply got faith and science in their own little neighborhoods and entertain the validity of both simultaneously, regardless of contradiction?
What then? Do you instantly disregard everything I say from that point? Am I an idiot, then? Or am I just wrong?

If you're answering yes, then you're guilty of Dogma. In fact, you're not all that different from a hard line Christian. You may preach a different creation story, but your mind is just as set in its ways.

There are no walls, there are no absolute answers, and there never will be. Not until death will you know for sure.
Ironically, I've found that coming to terms with this essential unknown has granted me the inner peace that sets most folks searching for God in the first place. I stopped looking for absolutes - When I did, I found myself. At the end of the day all that really matters is living well, being happy, and the people you love.