Bad Hair/Religion Day

Some people have so-called "bad hair days", I don't, I have "bad religion days" and today I'm having a whopper!

One of the main problems of religion is that it's a static, dogmatic load of nonsense that doesn't take into account the fact that we live in a dynamic ever-changing world. People have become a little more sophisticated - at least some have - over the past two thousand years, you can't expect to trot out the same old story about some geezer who lives in the sky and expect to get away with it! The tale was told and the book was written at a time when things were very different to the way they are now, people are better educated and not intimidated by the fear of god anymore.

The main reason that man invented religion was to keep the masses in order, unfortunately for religion, some of the masses are now more intelligent than the perpetrators of the god myth and so amongst educated people, religion is - thankfully - in decline. It hasn't escaped my attention - and hopefully not yours - that religiosity is strongest in parts of the world where education is lacking. It usually goes hand-in-hand with poverty but not always - the USA is a good example of this. America would not be considered a poor country and religion still has a good hold there, but the fact is that most Americans are not well educated and religion is strongest in the poorer states.

I don't want to seem like I'm bashing the USA, while I worked there I met many bright people but of course I was in software development, where a brain is kinda necessary.

In recent years some religious leaders have made a few puerile attempts at dogma modification in order that it become more suited to modern times, but their efforts are doomed to failure. It's too little too late, to win hearts and minds again they'd have to scrap the whole deal and start over, but of course that would make a joke of the entire thing! If we manage to survive the religion wars that are currently taking place then there's a good chance that given time, it will all disappear.

I predict christianity will be first to go; the reason being that christian countries have better education and the story is very nonsensical. Probably, some of the Eastern religions will linger longest because they make more sense and they have a lot of followers who are not yet educated.

I've just had a final thought...if religion were true and there was a heaven, what would be the point of being here on Earth?

Think about it...I will.