Chris Olson - SunPS <Chrisf.Olson at Sun.COM> writes on 26 November 2002 at 09:50:08 -0800 > > I get cranky when far-future societies have anything recognizable as > > religion, personally. Makes no sense it would last that long. > > Now, as a die-hard skeptic and militant agnostic, I'd > *like* to agree with you, but... > > Why do you think we, as a species, would have no religion in the > far-future? Up to now, it seems to be going strong, and we've > been around and evolving (well, SOME of us have been evolving:) > for what, twenty thousand years, give or take? (I'm not sure exactly > how long homo sapiens have been conducting religious practices...:) It's going strong *here*, and in a lot of third-world places, but it's remarkably dead throughout the rest of the developed world. We're kind of an outlier. > But I'm curious as to why you think it would be gone... Partly optimism, partly that it is so clearly counter-productive. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info