An interview with Edward O. Wilson "the origin of morals"

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link to interview:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/spie...84767.html

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Interesting article.
I don't think the evolution of our species beyond the religious fear paradigm that seeks to subvert or even obstruct pursuit of excavating more of our human nature, will ever disappear in our lifetime. Nor in the lifetime of the new humans who entered the world just this minute in birthing rooms world wide.

When we indoctrinate infants with baptism and make them unwitting non-consenting members of an intolerant cult tradition and attach to their perfect innocence the stain of sin that mythology, tradition, and bad fiction espouses is innately human and has applied that teaching for generations prior, and now confine that little open mind to the constraints of a dogma she or he have no understanding of but are none the less made member to with a water initiation, we've prove we're far too afraid to be human to ever let go of that what condemns us through the vehicle of that superstition.
And then the faithful to that myth supplicate themselves to that what they accept on faith must be there even though the rational intellect knows it is not. And in that compliance to ritualized self-deprecation humans arguably demonstrate we are not ready to delve deeper into what it means to be fully responsible for all that we are and survive on a planet, within a galaxy, that is wholly indifferent to our existence. That barring the pretend invisible parent commanding our behaviors in scriptures, we are alone as a species, unless we make friends with our kind.

Maybe finding security in fable happens because deep down inside we're afraid we're not what condemning faith traditions program us to believe about ourselves. Perhaps we know what our fullest potential can achieve, the good and the bad, and we need something to reign us in so that we don't catapult unfettered into the unknown and potentially extinguish our race, the human race, in the process.
After all, most faith traditions control their adherents through fear paradigms regarding conscious life and death. To think we will one day never be is something many people aren't ready to entertain as a real possibility. Religious traditions insure we don't have to.