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Originally Posted by molson
Not too harsh - Rainmaker's actually figured out that the human species has figured out everything there is to know about the universe, and that any further philosophical or spiritual reflection is stupid. (Which actually makes him more enlightened than Einstein, so it's a real honor to have him posting on this board)
Though he is wrong about the religion going away part - Islam is growing and spreading geographically (both the religious part, and the culture and way of looking at the world that it has inspired)
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I would think his view on
organized religion would just put him along side most of the world’s philosophers who consider it quite silly. How some people take a criticism of the absurdity of organized religion as some sort of answer to the universe's mysteries has always astounded me. The only people I see saying they know the truth and have figured it all out all tend to be the religious.
As for your unusual decision to invoke Einstein...
"Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is intentionally being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression. Mistrust of every kind of authority grew out of this experience, a skeptical attitude toward the convictions that were alive in any specific social environment - an attitude that has never again left me, even though, later on, it has been tempered by a better insight into the causal connections. "