Oo-er - A serious one

I make no secret of the fact that I have an unusual train of thought. Simple events often lead me on a cognitive merry-go-round which ends up in unorthodox, often dark places. The simple act of a colleague leaving work early to go to prayers led me to the possibility of raising the dead and its implications on Human Resources policy. As you would expect.

As I said, a Muslim colleague goes to prayers a couple of times a day. Work are completely happy with this situation, when he nips out for twenty minutes to the local mosque and gets his prayer on. However, as I said, I often go off on one thoughts-wise, and this is what I came up with:

- Guy goes to prayer
- Work lets him because of his religious beliefs
- What if a recently dead person is brought back to life by means of a revolutionary new medical procedure and he announces there is no afterlife?
- Throws all religion into doubt
- Companies use this new finding to ban all religious leniency during work hours
- The shit hits the fan

Odd, yes? Basically, my thoughts turns towards the ability to bring someone back from the dead weeks after they died and they're like "Bloody hell - I thought I'd go to < arbitrary posthumous destination > but I didn't. Turns out religion is just a load of old hooey". Makes you think, doesn't it? What if science could dispel the existence of religion - the place would be in uproar.

I mentioned this to the Mrs (my regular pre-blog sounding board/moral filter) and she said that the religious types would just argue that God/Allah/Whoever meant for this person to be brought back to life, thus negating the scientific argument, and it's an intriguing thought. Basically, no matter what science can or can't prove in the future, God-squadders could just say "Yeah - God did that. Mysterious ways, etc".

I'm not sure I'm going to be able to settle this argument in one blog, but I hope I've made you think about religion and science and all that caper. Beats another anti-Katona rant I suppose...