Simon, why do we need religion?

Won’t things be a bit better without it?

Why the veneration of Jesus?

I’m saying that religion also needs secular institutions in order to form a complete society (that incorporates religion, such as the UK or US).

I disagree with almost all of that Simon. If I could be offended by other peoples’ opinions I would be offended by the apparent assumption (as I read it) that in order to have a civil society we need the basics of religion or that if it was an atheistic based society lawlessness and chaos would ensue.

When it comes to the value of theology I…[Read more]

But the theological version can’t be dismissed at useless, as most of the essential components are in place.  Even if the origin of those components seems bogus to us (God etc.), that might not matter as long as the arrangement is effective, which I think it is, reasonably.  But without civil society, we have the lawless chaos of medieval B…[Read more]

@Unseen, please whack me headside if I’m going too far off your topic, but I just had the following Conscious Thought. And I wouldn’t mind a philosopher’s correction of my thought process here, or terminology used.

It seems that a lot of our philosophical questions, especially the deeper ones that address how we think of nature, reality and…[Read more]

Simon, I think morality can only be effective when it founded in and grounded in sociology without any reference to theology.