Despare, good call. I don't need to repeat for the billionth time what I got my undergraduate degree in at uni and how I'd like to get my PhD in the same field, but I could talk about it all day. You wouldn't believe how fascinating the topic is, if people actually talked about it. The thing is, a lot of people are sort of put off by the subject (especially during these times).
By in large, most of the responses that were give, especially Sam's, described agnosticism: the concept that there is or if there is a higher power/consciousness at work human beings cannot even begin to comprehend it, so why bother. (IMO, you're already plugged in anyway)
I really thought what Urge said was cool. You (Urge) said that your morals came from you and you didn't need some one or a book to tell you. Honestly, I think that is true in most people; it's human nature. Those people that don't have that particular drive, tend to be aberhant members of society, and thus it is human nature to have that desire to force them out of the human society as a whole. Survival instincts...
There in lies the problem that I have with "religion." It isn't the belief in Deity. It's the heirarchical pattern that presupposes that all but a select few are in the know, while the rest (about 90%) are disconected and need to be told, led, etc. The truth is everyone in whatever way is in the know. It's instinctive.
I will say that those fuckers who sale themselves, the planet (habits, wildlife, the benefit of other human beings despite their own morality have disconnected themselves from the internal consciousness or their own humanity... if that makes any sense... I quess I just don't understand those people).
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