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Originally Posted by nobodylaiceps
hahaha. Love it, short and sweet, and it just....brings me hope that maybe you'll be another person to help bring down religion. A little short, but I love it. Try writing a little more next time. (e.g. Tell us what happens when this 'God' has perished.)
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Hi nobodylaiceps and thanks for these kind comments. And I just might take you up on your offer of an extended poem on this particular idea.
As a word of caution, however, I don't believe that religion as an ideology (any religion is essentially an ideology, a system of ideas) is simply there to be 'brought down' as you put it, although I fully understand your feelings. As one philosopher / historian once argued, in order to rid ourselves of all this (religious) humbug, we must first struggle to transform the material world upon which such ideological humbug depends, and from which it ultimately emerged in one or other of its forms. In other words, religion cannot simply be talked out of existence if this is what you mean by to 'bring down'.
Of course, criticism of religious doctrine is a necessary process, but it is not the only, or even the most important process in humankind's efforts to rid itself of religious ideas and superstition. Instead, the material reality upon which such mystical beliefs depend must be superseded by forms of social organisation in which humans are not living in an inhumane (alien) world. A world in which the natural environment and people's social organisation, are, for the very first time in human history, scientifically understood (in a social sense), consciously planned, and all this for the good of all humans, as opposed to meeting the needs of a tiny minority of humans as is presently the case to varying degrees.
Thanks again for your considerate comments.
Colin