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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dayuhan who wrote (2559)	10/25/2000 10:12:31 AM
From: E	Respond to of 28931

They'll know a lot (if there is still a "they") about brain chemistry then. They'll know the precise chemical and electrical mechanisms involved in the psychology of worshipfulness. This doesn't mean theistic credulity and the tendency to worshipfulness will have gone away, but it probably means there will be less of that sort of thing. What there is will have taken different forms. Whatever forms theism takes, each believer will be entirely sure, with every fiber of his or her being, that his or her deity is the One True God. This conviction will, as usual, justify dehumanization of contrary believers, and everyone's intermediary functionaries, or clerics, will as usual make out like bandits. That's my scenario.

To: Dayuhan who wrote (2559)	10/26/2000 3:51:18 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Re: Since it does seem that much of humankind needs religion, what sort of religion do you think we will have in, say, 2500 years, assuming that we have not reduced each other to cinders? Hopefully, we won't have to wait that long.... Actually, I expect the discovery of some extraterrestrial life form to be the watershed that's gonna give anthropocentrist religions a death-blow --I've broached the issue in a previous post: Message 14640397