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- It seems to me that if we try to cut religion out of our lives entirely then we are denying something which is fundamentally human. Religion in some form has, pretty much, always been with us. For me the question is not whether it is true (in the sense of a reality) but why it is important to us, even today.
In terms of warfare, religion is, more often than not, the excuse or justification rather than the reason, as with many things in life "this is really about that" It is nothing new to say that it is the people who interpret religion rather than religion itself that causes war. But I do understand what it means to be angry at the people who do abuse it and wish there was no religion for them to use, but i am afraid it is likely that there would always be something.
I read a quote the other day which said: "Too often we have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another." Jonathan Swift
I thought it was interesting.
I think this episode is a light-hearted exploration that looks into whether the story, as it is, could have happened in modern, scientific terms and I like that radiolab has the open-mindedness and courage to tackle all and any subject relevant to our human existence (which religion is, whether you would have it or not.)
But again I am interested in a different question, not did it happen, but what does it mean or did it mean at the time? for instance, what stage of development was the psyche that wrote it at? Seeing as it was much closer to the dawn of consciousness I would expect that the brains of the time perhaps understood more with imagery and symbols, a bit like the right side of our brains. Numbers might have been somewhat different, and why 7?
This radiolab has established that it could not be done with physics, so we are left with either it being a downright lie, a miracle, or it means something other than it appears. I feel that a bottom up approach might be more useful than a top down.
