Saturday, September 20, 2008

More Anti-Religious Observations

I have come to the conclusion that religion cannot be part of the solution to the harms that religion causes. The answer to the damage caused by Christianity is not nicer Christians; it is not the United Church of Christ, or the Unitarian Universalists, or Quakers. The correct response to the incorrect guidance of religions does not involve Reform Jews or moderate Muslims; or Hinduism or Buddhism; or Native American spirituality, enlightened ecumenicism, or parapsychology. The only proper response -- not that I'm holding my breath -- would be the voluntary cessation of the relgious project, retaining only those philosophical and ethical insights that are valuable moving forward and that can float free of dogma and worship.