In his book ‘The End of Faith’ by Sam Harris which I am reading at the moment the author puts forward a theoretical situation where the whole population of the world (all 6 billion plus of us) wake up one morning and have global amnesia and we have to start learning all the knowledge we have at present all over again.
He suggests some priorities that we would need to learn all over again by reading books and using computers in our public/private libraries would be how to grow crops and build shelter. Some sources and books would obviously be very important - say farming and house building whereas other books and sources would be put on the back burner or in the mythology shelf of our library for humanity.
Now he comes to the important bit of this theoretical situation would all the religious books be put on this Mythology book shelf along with ‘The Egyptian Book of the Dead’ or my own suggestion the ‘Bardo Thodol’ as relics from the past like child labor, human sacrifice and taboos against contraception.
I think he is making a good point do we really need religion?
Are we to modern to accept an all seeing, all knowing invisible God who has lived for eternity what do you think?
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
Martin Heidegger
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