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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
These remarks rely on the base assumption that the success of religion is largely due to a deficit of information and a poor understanding of the physical world. If that were true, religion would have been dying a slow death since the dawn of man.
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I do absolutely maintain my opinion that willful ignorance of the true state of the universe (at least as far as our limited understanding as yet) and the deliberate concealing of these facts from their offspring are the crumbling foundations that religions are built on.
Imagine how many MORE religious people there would be today without Bohr, Galileo, da Vinci, Darwin, Einstein, Newton and others coming along.
Advanced scientific knowledge was only attainable to elite educated segments of society - now with Wikipedia and other digital means providing the mass flow of ideas and science...I predict we will start to see significant declines in fundamentalism hokus pokus within our lifetimes.