When you say things like “That’s not the kind of god I’m happy with", I wonder why you would choose an organized religion with all the strings attached in terms of dogma?
I've known lots of people who are both religious and scientifically oriented, and none of them have seemed to view religion as "choosing the unknown", but more as not abandoning as irrelevant that about which understanding through empiricism is not viable.
> When you say things like “That’s not the kind of god I’m happy with", I wonder why you would choose an organized religion with all the strings attached in terms of dogma?
Er, when he says that, he says it about a particular science-fiction account, not about what a particular real world religion believes, so I don't see how those things even relate. Why would not liking the picture painted by a particular piece of science fiction put you off of organized religion in general, particularly an organized religion whose doctrines do not demand the account proposed in that piece of science fiction?