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religionReligion is practically useful in that it keeps us from having to worry about the details of subjects where directed inquiry is probably not going to be much help in any case. If it constrained itself to those subjects we'd be a lot better off. Courtesy of Hossein's friend: religious longing is the root of humanity; monkeys don't have it. What is the evolutionary basis for this longing? He suggests it is God's doing; I think I've heard that before and it's a strong point. |
... in all but the most dedicatedly repressive hegemonies, if in a sizable population there are one hundred rebels, all of whom are then rounded up and killed, the number of rebels present at the end of the day is not zero, and not even one hundred, but two hundred or three hundred or more; an equation based on human nature which seems often to baffle the military and political mind. -- Iain M. Banks, A Few Notes on the Culture