You are the product of your environment
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“But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.” - Carl Sagan (The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark)
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I’m sorry Professor Dawkins but that is just not true. There is far more to “religion” than your repressive Anglican upbringing. Tao, Buddhism, Jainism, Native American Spiritualism, Sufism, Aboriginal animism, Hinduism, Shamanism, Christian Mysticism, Paganism. None of these religious traditions claim to have all the answers. They simply provide a means of experiencing the universe, a context, a language of symbols and shared experiences.
Is it your contention that generations of great thinkers, theologians, mystics, prophets, rabbis, Zen masters, Imams, poets and prophets is totally without meaning or value simply because you lump them all into the term “religion”? Would mankind be so profligate with its great thinkers to spend it on something without meaning or value. Science is wonderful. It teaches us about the universe which can be measured, weighed and described. However, the universe is so much more that gas clouds, dust particles and light. Why approach the universe with one eye blinded? Use all of the tools you have available. One of these tools is the shared experiences of five thousand years of human experience.Being “against religion” is to ignore this accumulated wisdom and experience simply because your English Public School education was constricting.
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