Originally Posted by Toonik

It is my understanding that a religion is a primitive attempt to explain everything in a one book or something like that. It should have died out when at least some of the people started to realize that these so called explainations where probably created by some more or less charismatic and creative persons because scientific proof dismissing them were starting to emerge. So these primitive people started to retell the same story to their young and so forward.

And that is how we find ourselves in a funny position where there is a scientific elite of people who have created the current society as we know it. And during this creation they have been constantly disturbed by power-hungry or stupid religious fools (who in fact have been proven wrong in a number of occasions).

So there is the point of this monologue: I am feeling the that moderate person is ever more distancing from the "scientific conquers of mankind" (or so this gray mass likes to call them) since the average person is growing more and more easy-going. So they dream of mundane stuff like getting as much as possible of that green paper or debate on important stuff like how to improve there sex-life etc. There is that "advanced" human that votes representatives in our democratic (well mostly) world. And this means that ever more important decisions are made by people incapable to cope with the scientific revolutions taking place almost daily.