We live in an age where our extensive scientific knowledge and our love of all things objective and measurable has placed religion in a precarious position. Our scientific worldview tells us that religious dogma is illusory and full of falsehoods and that as enlightened men and women we do not need it to live. But while we may not need a god to fill in the gaps of our knowledge of the natural world, does religion have nothing to teach us about our existential dilemma? Are we really better off psychologically with the picture that science paints for us of an infinite, cold and random cosmos lacking in objective human values and offering us nothing but the finality of death? Or could it be that in abandoning the Christian worldview the West placed itself in a psychological void of confusion and disorientation?
Another great post! Your insight always gives me something to think about and I thank you for that!
Thanks. Cited the above in: Time for a Remedial Global Nuclear War? Recognizing an unconscious collective need for disastrous cathartic experience (https://www.laetusinpraesens.org/docs20s/nuclear.php)