Religion is the New Race.

Religion is the new race. In the past we more identified by what country or part of the world our parents came from. Now the majority of us are more likely to identify ourselves by which form of magical thinking we engage in or were indoctrinated in by our parents. Instead of valuing the secular culture from which many of our western governmental principles and modern day achievements are derived from we are subservient to religion or our child-like way of thinking.

Religion appeals to our reptilian brains or ancient way of thinking. By not recognizing that all religions are forms of magical thinking based on unverifiable beliefs we are doomed to give this way of thinking credibility and thus the ability to wreak havoc in the world.

Faith is not a virtue, it is the opposite. Faith is thinking with your “gut” instead of your brain. Until a critical tipping point of people understand this the world will continue to be a very regressive and dangerous place to live in. When we continue to elect and respect leaders who claim that they are religious we will get the immature world of “The Lord of the Flies”.

Why aren’t we laughing at religious ideas when expressed by adults instead of esteeming those who espouse such nonsense? When someone who is over 25 years old with a fully developed brain and self-identifies as a Muslim, Christian or Jew for example, we should realize that these people are telling us something very profound about themselves. They are telling us that they are retarded. They are demonstrating that although they look like adults they are really mentally still children. I worked with a devout Catholic who said she would not allow her children to read Harry Potter because it promoted magic. The irony was almost too much to bear. Children raising children - a reflection of the world today. Let's all grow up already.

"Science, as physicist Steven Weinberg has emphasized, does not make it impossible to believe in God, but rather makes it possible to not believe in God. Without science, everything is a miracle. With science, there remains the possibility that nothing is. Religious belief in this case becomes less and less necessary, and also less and less relevant" …. from Lawrence Krauss’s “A Universe from Nothing” .

"It is a fundamental tenet of science that we can never prove something to be true; we can only prove it to be false. This is a very important idea, one that is the basis of all scientific progress. Once we find an example in which a theory that may have worked correctly for millennia no longer agrees with observation, we then know that it must be supplemented - with either new data or a new theory. There is no arguing." - from Lawrence Krauss's "Fear of Physics.