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Originally Posted by Ilya  The point is that the capacity to feel religion, and the hunger for it, is not merely cultural but biological. Take away current religion and something else will come to fill the gaps, and that something could be far more dangerous than modern religion. |
I'm quite sure it is biological, but human biology is not set in stone.
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Originally Posted by Ilya PS: I consider your usage of the word fatality to be quite inappropriate. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the feelings of religiosity, and I would even go as far as saying that those kinds of feelings have been the most wonderful ones I have ever experienced. The fatality of human nature is extremism, but extremism is not always tied to religion: look at fascism (which is unrelated to religion) and communism (which is fundamentally antitheistic). |
It wasn't my intention to sound pejorative here ... i meant it in this sense: "The quality of being determined by fate". i just couldn't find a better word at the time. maybe 'destiny' would have been more appropriate.