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I've looked at "religion" from a different perspective, ever since the 60's & 70's, when we saw so graphically raw on TV, video of the Vietnam War.

Buddhist Monks setting themselves on fire, a child running screaming down the road, her clothes burnt off by Agent Orange, our fellow Baby Boomers coming back from Vietnam with haunted eyes, filled with pain.

These horrors contrasted so starkly with the cosmic, awesome beauty of Planet Earth seen from Space, as around the Globe, every human with access to a TV set watched the First Human to set foot on the MOON.

The Astronaut quoted the beautiful words of the Bible, of Genesis. Science & religion coming together was inspiring, not threatening.

But there's been a "backlash" ever since, an attack on Science by "fundamentalists" who apparently just can't stomach even the IDEA that they we are ALL RELATED to each other, all part of the HUMAN Race.

That we're all INTER-CONNECTED members of the SAME Tribe, living IN "Heaven", on a spinning ball we call "Earth". "SPACESHIP EARTH"

We're really at "Childhood's End", with our Weapons of War developed to the point where our own Technology may well wipe us out, ALL of us.

The concept of "Spaceship Earth", is my "religious" perspective. I believe that our
survival depends on peaceful cooperation, on DIPLOMACY & conflict resolution. Most of all, on saying "NO!", "HELL, NO!", to those who thirst for yet MORE War.

Our President is once again talking about War, this time with Iran. It is up to us, as Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, whatever, to speak up & say, "NO, Mr. President!"

To speak up & counter the extremist voices who are promoting the SUICIDAL "End Times" religious ideas, like the "Left Behind" books' scenario.

To speak up & counter those in "Talk Radio" News & on TV, who are spreading messages of Hate.

To spread Jesus' message of PEACE on Earth!

To "be the change we wish to see in the World".

Actually, there's some science IN your religion,
here and there, and as much as we believe in
scientific principles, they, too, could in a way
be construed to be a religion, a belief system
of their own. Science gives a good way to
explain to ourselves and the world the truth of
what is observed, the measurement of various things, religion is I guess kind of a science
of the heart, what we believe to be moral and/or
immoral, good and bad, right and wrong, divine or evil, a differentiation that provides guidance for
how people should live their lives etc.

But, I'm a heathen, I think religion, especially
and specifically organized religion, is a
mechanism for trying to assert political control
and get money out of the public. I like the
sound of that new atheists' club, sounds like the
right deal for me...

Religion can make a major step by stopping its denial of proven science.

Both can work together to end suffering in all it's forms.