RE: Separation of Science and State
November 17, 2020 at 4:20 pm
(This post was last modified: November 17, 2020 at 4:26 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Functionally, it does religion. It unites people in a moral whole over beliefs and practices relative to the sacred. Let's add a wrinkle. It's just soooo good at religion, that it becomes the majority religion of earth. Now we don't have to wonder what other religious people think about it, they're all gone like a common pagan.
There is only the Church of the Secular Sacred, and people who do not belong to any church. These people assert that we should write or change some law to conform to their religious beliefs.
(*worth pointing out that this isn't purely hypothetical, a religion of nature is a real thing - and these people begin to lay out their own case by showing how every other religion was also a religion of nature - one that fucked up on one or more items of natural fact - but still sought to communicate and explore items of fact, facts of exactly the sort as they lay claim to in error.)
There is only the Church of the Secular Sacred, and people who do not belong to any church. These people assert that we should write or change some law to conform to their religious beliefs.
(*worth pointing out that this isn't purely hypothetical, a religion of nature is a real thing - and these people begin to lay out their own case by showing how every other religion was also a religion of nature - one that fucked up on one or more items of natural fact - but still sought to communicate and explore items of fact, facts of exactly the sort as they lay claim to in error.)
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