Zero Powers wrote:
> Small rural communities differ from a transparent world in one huge way.
> People who live in small rural communities tend to have a common culture.
> They go to the same churches, belong to the same organizations...
Right! We as extropians may have been exactly wrong about one thing:
our notion that greater freedom comes from having freedom from religion.
Perhaps we need *more* religions, lots of different ones, lots of them that
are mutually exclusive! That way, people can get all the religious fixes that
humans seem to need, yet there is plenty of evidence for anyone who cares
to see, that these ridiculous notions cannot *all* be true, but they definitely
*can* all be wrong.
Let us encourage all religions, and hope none of them get more popular
than the others, so there are a jillion little churches, all fighting for market
share. "You guys worship buddha, you other guys worship yhwh, you
over there worship cucumbers..." All with different rules of moral conduct
and none with a majority. Welcome them all, and offer an alternative
for those who see the madness of it all. spike
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