Has religion and the concept of god outlived it's usefulness?
Posted 07-15-2015 at 05:16 AM by Continuum
[B]Has religion and the concept of god outlived it's usefulness? [/B]
Unfortunately no.
The underlying inherent drive that manifest the concept of religion and idea of God is almost-like [not exactly but almost] the need to breathe.
Whilst the above inherent drive in the minority is somewhat suppressed, for the majority [masses] religion and theism is a critical necessity to deal with that inherent drive entangled in an existential dilemma. The point is religion and theism work very immediately and effectively in dealing with the existential angst. It is like morphine relieving pain and it get one hooked on it. Marx is definitely right on this.
Since the inherent drive is embedded in the human DNA/RNA it is not avoidable. What need attention at present is some religions are very malignant and a threat to the well-being of humanity. The only solution is to find net-positive foolproof alternative solutions to deal with that unavoidable existential dilemma.
Religions and theism will be around for a long time unless we can find benign alternative solutions soon. However what is at issue is there is a critical malignant religion, i.e. Islam-in-part [not whole] which is a serious threat to the well being of humanity with the terrible evils and violence committed by SOME Muslims acting on a significant levels of evil-laden element in the holy texts. There is no issue with the majority of Muslims who are just like any other ordinary people who MUST resort to a religion to deal with the inherent existential dilemma to keep their heads above water.
Thus priority should be directed to understand the proximate cause of the part of Islam that is generating evil and deal with it immediately. In the longer run [75-100 years], humanity need to wean off all religions on a voluntarily basis and replace them with net-positive spiritual approaches to deal with the inherent unavoidable existential dilemma. I am optimistic this is a possibility based on the existing trend of the exponential expansion of knowledge and knowledge in many advance fields.
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Unfortunately no.
The underlying inherent drive that manifest the concept of religion and idea of God is almost-like [not exactly but almost] the need to breathe.
Whilst the above inherent drive in the minority is somewhat suppressed, for the majority [masses] religion and theism is a critical necessity to deal with that inherent drive entangled in an existential dilemma. The point is religion and theism work very immediately and effectively in dealing with the existential angst. It is like morphine relieving pain and it get one hooked on it. Marx is definitely right on this.
Since the inherent drive is embedded in the human DNA/RNA it is not avoidable. What need attention at present is some religions are very malignant and a threat to the well-being of humanity. The only solution is to find net-positive foolproof alternative solutions to deal with that unavoidable existential dilemma.
Religions and theism will be around for a long time unless we can find benign alternative solutions soon. However what is at issue is there is a critical malignant religion, i.e. Islam-in-part [not whole] which is a serious threat to the well being of humanity with the terrible evils and violence committed by SOME Muslims acting on a significant levels of evil-laden element in the holy texts. There is no issue with the majority of Muslims who are just like any other ordinary people who MUST resort to a religion to deal with the inherent existential dilemma to keep their heads above water.
Thus priority should be directed to understand the proximate cause of the part of Islam that is generating evil and deal with it immediately. In the longer run [75-100 years], humanity need to wean off all religions on a voluntarily basis and replace them with net-positive spiritual approaches to deal with the inherent unavoidable existential dilemma. I am optimistic this is a possibility based on the existing trend of the exponential expansion of knowledge and knowledge in many advance fields.
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