{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 184/1918-10-11/p007","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In these times, in the epoch of the Consciousness Soul, the scientific age is spoken of with great pride, even with real arrogance. In a certain sense those who speak thus have right on their side, for most educated people to-day are living in the scientific stream of the age. For it does not matter whether we think as modern botanists do about plants, zoologists about animals, anthropologists about man; nor does it matter how much we learn from anthropology, botany or zoology; what does matter is whether people form their thoughts about the world so that these are in line with scientific thinking. This line is followed to-day by most people who have any kind of schooling and are therefore not illiterate or nearly so. Thus the people whom we have to consider pursue a scientific kind of thinking, but that does not hinder many of them from diligently attending church to hear the sermon, or from being what is called religious, pious. Now just ask yourselves to what extent this religious piety is still working in the general life of men, even when they believe themselves to be pious or believe they should be. The religious feelings developed in any particular religious faith have extraordinarily little power to work into thoughts about the world. Everywhere to-day in external life, in the widest circles, thinking takes a scientific direction. Nowadays for most people religion is more or less a side line. One can indeed say that this modern epoch of the Consciousness Soul is proud even to arrogance of its scientific achievements and of the scientific kind of thinking that goes with it. And it adopts an attitude of condescension towards earlier ages.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture Four","site_heading":"Christ's Intervention: Preventing Ahrimanic Knowledge Premature Flooding","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Man hat mit diesem Reden in einem gewissen Sinne recht, denn nicht nur diejenigen, die heute naturwissenschaftlich gebildet sind, leben in diesem naturwissenschaftlichen Zeitalter, sondern es leben unter den gebildeten Menschen weitaus die meisten in der naturwissenschaftlichen Strömung des Zeitalters; denn es kommt nicht darauf an, um im naturwissenschaftlichen Zeitalter zu leben, ob man denkt, wie heute Botaniker über die Pflanzen, Zoologen über die Tiere, Anthropologen über die Menschen denken, es kommt nicht darauf an, daß man mehr oder weniger von der Anthropologie, der Botanik, der Zoologie weiß, sondern es kommt darauf an, daß man seine Gedanken über die Welt so ausbildet, daß sie in der Richtung des naturwissenschaftlichen Denkens liegen. Und diese Richtung des naturwissenschaftlichen Denkens, die schlagen eigentlich die meisten Menschen ein, die heute irgend etwas sogar nur mit Schulbildung zu tun haben, die also nicht Analphabeten oder nahezu Analphabeten sind. Also die Menschen, die heute überhaupt in Betracht kommen, sie schlagen eine naturwissenschaftliche Denkungsart ein; daran hindert sie nicht, daß sie manchmal fleißig in die Kirche gehen, den Predigten zuhören, daß sie, wie man sagt, religiös, fromm sind. Denn fragen Sie sich nur einmal, wieviel diese religiöse Frommheit heute noch wirkt im allgemeinen Menschenleben, selbst wenn man glaubt, noch so fromm zu sein oder sein zu sollen? Auf die Gedanken über die Welt haben die religiösen Empfindungen, die in diesem oder jenem Religionsbekenntnis entwickelt werden, außerordentlich wenig Kraft, einzuwirken. Überall im äußeren Leben, in weitesten Kreisen der heutigen Bevölkerung, denkt man eben naturwissenschaftlich orientiert. Das Religiöse ist mehr oder weniger für die meisten Menschen der Gegenwart nur eine Beigabe. 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