mozzaok wrote on Jul 25
th, 2008 at 11:18am:
"tell me how we will make all people toss aside religion to create the ideal society?"
Great question GSS.
I've already answered that one at least twice.
Quote:The very human characteristic of wanting to understand things, gave rise to our earliest ideas of religion.
Primitive people saw things they could not understand, and created their own answers to what were, for them, unanswerable questions.
As scientific, and human knowledge grew, many of these unanswerable questions were answered, and usually were strongly resisted at the time.
That we still ponder the big spiritual questions, is always likely to remain an intrinsic, and valuable part of our makeup, what is likely to change is the need to develop fantasy constructs to try and answer these questions.
As that is the general domain of religion, to claim to have the answers to the unanswerable questions, as we continue to evolve, the validity of pretending to have answers where none exist, is likely to become more and more marginalised.
Agreed.
Religion is a way for the weak to gain power and exploit society.. Always has been, always will be.
Quote:I expect we will see a growing attachment to a more philosophical approach to life, rather than a religious one.
In any mature society this is inevitable. Though there are still those who will cling to superstition as they fear death.
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