fear of death drives religion, page-140

moorookamick

That's very true - however, humans are amazingly pliable creatures. A headhunter in a Papuan jungle in a single generation has a child studying in a University to become a doctor.

Fundamentalist Christianity has driven people away from the main-stream religions, Anglican and Catholic, and into a bunch of charismatic or American invented Christian sects. That too will run its race when they discover it leads nowhere.

There is a vast body of moderate Muslims who wish to join the human race. Fear of reprisals keeps them simmering along in the guise of being militant. Eventually people will tire of the endless misery inflicted by false religion.

It will get much worse before it gets better but people all have common basic needs and wants. They will tire of inflicting misery upon themselves.

This is the age when we are moving towards planethood. All our disparities of culture and belief are rubbing up against each other and this causes friction and heat.

We've come from family group to confederation of family groups, then into tribes, tribes into city states, city states into states, states into nations, nations into confederations of nations with treaties and trading arrangements. The final step is into a global village. Common law, common weights and measures, adoption of a common auxiliary language, common currency.

Today humanity is like a wild adolescent. Doesn't know what's good for it. Always getting into trouble and hurting itself and others. We'll eventually grow up and move from corrupted literal religions to something that is real. We'll even discover true democracy and justice. It's a process and we only get to see fragments of it coming together in a single lifetime.

Come back in a couple of hundred years and you'll see that we will have learnt something.