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Originally Posted by concheet
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Sounds like the citizens of Saudi Arabia are more prosperous than the average US citizen!
With all that prosperity and free education they should be secular and liberalized by now, shouldn't they?
Instead they are one of the most repressive societies in the world today.
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That is not a secular society. Secularism is required first. Religious governments have pillaged the world many times over and reaped it's riches. Those did not sustain themselves.
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Again, wealth is not the answer, nor is leisure. The answer is in values, in priorities, in the meaning.
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A combination of wealth and values are needed. Religion was created to explain the unexplainable. Now that we have reached a point where we can scientifically explain many things (not all), we can recognize the importance of values without religion. Some of us do no need the threat of eternal (*)(*)(*)(*)ation to act morally. We realize that our existance and the future existance of others requires such values to sustain itself. The use of religion has been replaced with knowledge and genuine compassion rather than using threats to enforce such things.