RE: Personal revelation vs. free will
August 23, 2012 at 12:50 pm
(This post was last modified: August 23, 2012 at 12:53 pm by Cyberman.)
I count myself lucky in my upbringing myself. My parents taught me to read, with all the explorative curiosity that opens up for a young mind, before I even started school. Also they encouraged my interest, nay fascination, with space and the Universe. I think it helped growing up in seventies Britain, a childhood filled with the Golden Age of Doctor Who, Star Trek, and later of course Blake's 7 and proper Star Wars, all of which fuelled my imagination and interest with a Universe that had neither room nor need for gods.
What saddens me (and I've said this often enough) is that with all the historical knowledge regarding religion and its purpose as a means of socio-political control, there are still people who want to shackle themselves to the damn thing of their own volition. I would never want to outlaw religion even if I had the power so to do; however I do dream of a future - hopefully within the upcoming generations - in which we as a race have outgrown the need for such security blankets.
What saddens me (and I've said this often enough) is that with all the historical knowledge regarding religion and its purpose as a means of socio-political control, there are still people who want to shackle themselves to the damn thing of their own volition. I would never want to outlaw religion even if I had the power so to do; however I do dream of a future - hopefully within the upcoming generations - in which we as a race have outgrown the need for such security blankets.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
