« Reply #7 on: Fri, 11 November 2022, 11:02:20 »
THERE VERY LIKELY IS A GOD, but certainly not one Humans often worship.
I agree with this, and feel that Western Religion has generally run its course and passed its "Best by" date, but the residual underlying social morality that Jesus taught is still as valid as it ever was.
Unfortunately, the universal core value of human brotherhood has become eclipsed by the lust for power. Salman Rushdie said it very well with "Fundamentalist religion has nothing to do with spirituality and everything to do with political power."

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“These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power."
He paused for a moment, then thundered, “Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power!”
“In vain,” Roosevelt said, “they seek to hide behind the Flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the Flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike.”
- Franklin Roosevelt 1933