At first glance of this article, Paul Kurtz's questioning of this controversy allowed me to think in both a scientific and a religious perspective. Religion is all about being devoted, accepting what you believe in, and putting it into practice. Science however, seems to be the opposite of religion where seeing is believing; it is based on the study of facts and truths. Those who are religious and those who are not have the common difference of skeptical inquiry.
While the devoted are blindly faithful to their beliefs, they tend to turn away from skeptical inquiry and accept the guidelines of their religion. Those who apply the skeptical mind towards reason, however, find justification in answers that have explanation and can be proved. Although the religious are mostly born into their faith and are raised to accept their beliefs, they are also born with the right to think for themselves. If someone had to voluntarily put all their faith into something that they cannot even see, they should skeptically inquire with it before they start believing it. Therefore, I agree with Paul Kurtz and think that skeptical inquiry essentially needs to be applied to religion in order for one to have faith in it.
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