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PeterH

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Re: Hardwired

Mar 10, 2006, 16:37

Are there not several different types of religious needs?

In times of hardship, war, famine, plague, distress - there is the appeal to a greater power for deliverance.. "God help me!"

In times of stability and more adequate resources, there is a need to celebrate religion through the arts.."God is great!"

Then there is the need for power over others as expressed through religious hierarchies, intolerance, heresies, hell and damnation, social class.. "God is on our side and you'd better believe it!"

Above all, there seems to be a need that is still with us and why, after rejecting the teachings of orthodox religions, so many people revert to superstition, crank creeds and little green men. They just have to have something to believe in.

Animals don't question why they are here and who made their world but we do. The answers are still so obscure and the universe so bizarre and complex that we simply cannot understand it. So we invent religions with creation myths and super beings to tell us what we should do. Perhaps one day we shall grow up, accept responsibility for our actions and realise that this planet and this life is all that we have.

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