I thought Michio Kaku's remarks were poignant and relevant to our class; his description of humanity's hoped for transition "from segmented nations that fight each other with fundamentalist ideologies to a planetary civilization that is secular, scientific, multicultural, and at peace" (33:08-33:20).
Do the above attributes--secular, scientific, etc.--leave space for religion? What do you think?
Right after Kaku, Stephen Hawking responds to questions about life after death and religion. Check that out, too!
Certainly there's still room for Hagglund's "secular faith" but that's not religion, is it? But we could try to reconstruct the term along the lines of its etymolgy: "religare" means to bind or connect... so religion 2.0 might very well include secular faith as a binding element that holds people and peoples together AND reinforces a shared sense of mutual dependency upon one another and upon our natural abode.
ReplyDeleteOr we could just all sing along with John Lennon, "imagine no religion..."