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Bluelighter
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I agree there is a modern moral vacuum, a hole shaped God if you prefer, but religion has been at the heart of so many wars throughout history it has rarely been "a common path" unless one side has been wiped out by the other, leaving only people with a united view, who will find other differences soon enough.I haven't changed my generally sceptical view about the physical reality of a deity or the lack of moral and philosophical validity in any of the thousands of worlds religions, but I do now think there is a value to religion- maybe even a necessity. There is a God-shaped hole in the modern world which I think people need filled or we are left with massive polarisation and failure to find a common path forward- chaos and disorder. That said, filling this hole 'legitimately' seems almost impossible given what we now know about our place in the mighty cosmos, so we are left with what I've heard called a 'hole-shaped God', the new religions of politics and ideology. In many ways, the old beliefs in the Great Sky Daddy may have been better than what has replaced it. Which says something pretty fucking appalling.
It can be uniting, sure, but united against "them" is how trouble starts.