“We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
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Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.
