First, I believe that religion is the only human construct that has any chance of helping create a peaceful and equitable global human community. Certainly government, the judiciary, the educational system, philosophies, economies will never solve this problem. Religion is the only one that has at its core the values that have a chance to work.
Religion, for the most part, is about dressing up to socialize on Sundays, finding a safe haven from a fluid world through rigid dogma, doing a bit of guilt relieving charitable work now and then, leaving the sermon for the oversized TV in the mcmansion.
I admit this is cynical and I'm as guilty as anyone. But look at the world. Almost every conflict is religion based. We merely peck away at the vast discrepancy between the haves and the billions of have nots. We can't say it is what it is. It's what we've made it. Religion as an institution and we who practice it.
Religion has failed because God is not running it. Humans are. Humans have built into religion walled compounds, territoriality, rigid dogma, ancient grudges, protected hierarchies, elaborate mansions and adornments. These are the gifts humans have added to the few basic tenets necessary to build a decent human life.
Why am I telling you this when I myself don't know what to do about it? I don't really know.
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