Then came those who, like Copernicus
and Galileo, questioned the the writings of the ancients and proposed a new
theory of how species have reached the state we have. At the time those radical new ideas did not
reject the concept of a higher power, but attempted to explain how things were
set into motion.
Finally, there are those who
reject the concept of God, and find in the writings of the past the
justification for their non-belief, choosing to worship the gods of science. This group for all their claims of
independence appear little different from all the other religions mankind has
developed.
We need only to look back at to
our earliest writings to find that an organized set of beliefs are what binds
society. Whether a set of gods,
including the deceased ancestors like China, or god on earth like the Egyptians,
or a monotheistic one like the Hebrews, the belief system was fundamental to the
stability of a society.
As new belief systems gained
popular acceptance they must, for it is the nature of man, denigrate and
condemn the systems they would replace.
Isn’t that what we see in the world today, where the powerful beliefs of
the current religions are attacked by the public voices of the new?
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