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Quote by: abub The purpose of religion is to establish moral values, nothing more. Religion gets in the way of everyday life only when people take religious texts literally, and have disputes over it. |
You might have a point five hundred years ago but times have changed. Church and state are no longer one. Divine rights of kings is no longer considered reasonable. Societies are no longer homogeneous. There is no place for a particular religion’s morals to have a say in civil law. The vast majority of civil institutions must be secular because of this. A single religion can no longer play an effective role as the source or morals. We also live in the scientific age. People do not actually believe in the mumbo jumbo any more no matter what they may say. Only those living a primitive life can get away with it. For the rest of us it is no longer angels, demons, ghosts, sin and souls and such, it has become electrons, gigawatts, DNA, atoms and such. Supernatural religion is an anachronism. Any religion for our time would be based on the natural, and thus would not attribute morals to some uber-being but to our human nature. It would not only teach morals but would research them scientifically. Morals would not be what a sky daddy gave us; it would be what we have learned from studying people in different situations and different cultures and using the current scientific explanations to understand what we have learned and then use that to explore further. What we will learn will be far more “magical” than any mythology could ever concoct.
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