RE: Does anyone seriously believe that one day all religion will die?
December 13, 2010 at 1:43 pm
A pentacostal need not believe in evolution or genetics to benefit from fruits of gene therapy developed with the aid of theory of evolution.
Something in the form of even the most ignorant religion will last so long as the society is unable develop its institutions and economies in such a way as to make majority of its member benefits directly not only from the rational and critical world view of others, but from their own rational and critical world view. So long as not everyone gets immediate and tangible benefit from his own rational and critical world view, there will be people in the societt who will be vulnerable to other people, like teleevanglists and new age gurus, who might directly benefit from encouraging others to adopt a wishthinking world view. As long as sizeable portion of the population remain in this state, there will be religion.
Something in the form of even the most ignorant religion will last so long as the society is unable develop its institutions and economies in such a way as to make majority of its member benefits directly not only from the rational and critical world view of others, but from their own rational and critical world view. So long as not everyone gets immediate and tangible benefit from his own rational and critical world view, there will be people in the societt who will be vulnerable to other people, like teleevanglists and new age gurus, who might directly benefit from encouraging others to adopt a wishthinking world view. As long as sizeable portion of the population remain in this state, there will be religion.
