Post by papamihel on Dec 11, 2022 18:21:46 GMT
There is a book by Ken MacLeod (a Scottish Sci-Fi author) which describes a near future in which religion has been abolished almost everywhere.
There was a major war (he always blows up the Middle-East in his books) somewhat related to a religious conflict or conflicts and by the end everyone was so disgusted by faith...
Do you think something like this can happen in our world any time soon?
There was a major war (he always blows up the Middle-East in his books) somewhat related to a religious conflict or conflicts and by the end everyone was so disgusted by faith...
The fall of the great religious establishments had been as swift and sudden as that of communism.
After decades of religious inspiration or exacerbation of terrorism, fundamentalism, apocalyptic wars, creationism, climate-change denial, women's oppression, poverty, ignorance and disease, it was payback time. In a variety of forms, secularism had swept the board in all the advanced countries. No politician with any religious taint had a chance of national election. Every prohibition influenced by religion had been repealed. Every trace of religious influence had been excluded from the education system, and no exemptions from the secular state education system were allowed.
The faith-heads had called it the Great Rejection, and that was just what it had been.
After decades of religious inspiration or exacerbation of terrorism, fundamentalism, apocalyptic wars, creationism, climate-change denial, women's oppression, poverty, ignorance and disease, it was payback time. In a variety of forms, secularism had swept the board in all the advanced countries. No politician with any religious taint had a chance of national election. Every prohibition influenced by religion had been repealed. Every trace of religious influence had been excluded from the education system, and no exemptions from the secular state education system were allowed.
The faith-heads had called it the Great Rejection, and that was just what it had been.
Do you think something like this can happen in our world any time soon?
