Beyond All Religion Lies Salvation for The World.

All religious traditions, no matter how carefully re-designed to suit modern tastes, nurture strange beliefs—strange, at least, to non-believers. What could be more bizarre, to those outside the faith, than theories of transubstantiation or reincarnation, and of Limbo (abode of infants who die before baptism) or the heritability of Original Sin? Yet certain strangeness may be inevitable in such matters, Theologians choose obscurity over clarity. Quote scriptures as often as possible and add neologisms the more unclear the better, as if sprinkling opaque phrases. Any faith worth the name strains credulity. “Credo quia absurdum est”said Tertullian, religious faith and common sense are profoundly different ways of knowing. Out of a natural cosmos, they try to make supernatural sense. The question arises: how have educated people brought their white-hot faith into harmony with the cool practicality of their everyday lives? How have they connected theology to ethics, precepts to practice? Religion refers constantly to the endlessly interpretable Holy book -priests, mullahs, to show easy familiarity with the here and now and to suggest their profound literacy in their faith quote apostles and prophets to discuss important religious issues. For more than 300 years, everything that has fired authentic thinking has come from non religious philosophy erupting into science, art and literature. Religions rigorously avoid clear-minded science, technology, social science, or real history—the specter of interdisciplinarity—as if to proclaim that faith commands its own territory, concepts, and nomenclature, and outsiders must pay a salvation fee at the door.