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Morgan Barnes

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If Religion did not exist how far more advanced and how, much more tolerant of each other would we be?

After reading Umberto Eco's name of the rose (again) I started to think about the way religion has always been open to personal interpretation and the influence it has had by using fear and superstition and even ignorance to not only keep people in line but supress free thinking and invention.
So I started to thinking how further advanced we could be. Could we of already of colonised Mars and found and interacted with other species or would they of reached out to us?
Would we be more tolerant of each other and treat each other on a more equal footing than we have, had and still do???

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    Anil Kumar Mukteshwaram

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    Aug 18 2012: Morgan, Religion is the development of an idea. Religion is an idea that seeks to explain all that remains unexplained by science. Coming to the question of it did not exist, i guess it is not just religion, but the difference in opinion. People have always been intolerant of ideas that they cannot understand. Its surprising though that many are opposed to technology in this age of ipads as they cannot understand it. The intolerance to others is of ideas and not just a particular idea as religion. This is where we have groups and sects. The world is full of them. Look at the difference in political ideas and you have as many people propagating the same. You have many schools of thought each saying that they are the best. So i believe its not just a question of religion but what if there was toleration of ideas. Religion too has been unable to remain immune to this effect. So the result, you have the catholics and the protestants. In the protestants you have many denominations. While the commonality does exist, the very existence of these proves the difference in tolerance of the ideas.

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