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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lee: [QB] It seems to me that the spread, or resurgence, or just plain tenacity of religion in this day and age, it has a lot to do, ironically, with too much knowledge. Why ironically? Because religion first started as as way of explaining the unexplainable, the incomprehensible, the scary. Well, now we can explain, and we comprehend a fair bit - but it's still scary. . . So, religion hangs on in there. This is the Information Age, but little of it brings comfort. The worls hasn't gotten worse, we're just able to learn a whole lot more about how bad it really is. There was a charity ad that ran here a while back, it had celebrities clicking their fingers toi indocate every time a child died. General Vo Nguyen Giap once said (roughly, I forget the exact quote) "a hundred thousand people die every day - a human life means nothing." Richard Dawkins says "We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die, because they are never going to be born. The number of people that could be here in my place outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. We are privileged to be alive, and we should make the most of our time on this world." When you're faced with all that, who among us doesn't want there to be a purpose, a goal, a guiding light - fuck, anything that'll make sense of it all? I'm going to be thirty-six years old next week, but if I lie awake at night and think about this, the most basic instinct I feel is to run and climb in bed with my Mum. But I can't. And it's not just about seeking out comfort and blissful ignorance; the really unpalatable truth about all the evil in the world is that just about anyone is capable of it. Religion makes it possible for you to say "Those people doing those horrible things, they may be of the same race, the same culture as me, but they don't believe like I do, they're sinners." And, even better, "They will get their comeuppance in the next world, while I will be rewarded." [/QB][/QUOTE]
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