We are in agreement. Superstition is the issue. Superstition, whether it is primal or not is a choice or one alternative which we must keep in its place. Superstition creates a desire for a deity, an authority, or a creator and gives the idea of god power and inordinate significance. Science has better and more neutral and satisfactory answers, which lack the certainty and security of a protective or domineering god but also lack the arbitrariness and brutality of cults. Unfortunately, even Christianity based on the New Testament and the Beatitudes and faith tends to devolve into fanaticism and extreme beliefs and has a need to save the world and spread through orthodoxy and ultimately force. Agnostics and atheists are democratic by definition.
Unfortunately there seems to be a primal belief in magic. Until we acknowledge this and address it we will continue to battle with ineffective tools.
We are in agreement. Superstition is the issue. Superstition, whether it is primal or not is a choice or one alternative which we must keep in its place. Superstition creates a desire for a deity, an authority, or a creator and gives the idea of god power and inordinate significance. Science has better and more neutral and satisfactory answers, which lack the certainty and security of a protective or domineering god but also lack the arbitrariness and brutality of cults. Unfortunately, even Christianity based on the New Testament and the Beatitudes and faith tends to devolve into fanaticism and extreme beliefs and has a need to save the world and spread through orthodoxy and ultimately force. Agnostics and atheists are democratic by definition.