[chronictoker]

To a postmodernist.

Not saying I am postmodernist per se, but I like a lot of its ideas.

Maybe religion isn't the right word, but it seems to me that science and religion are more alike than they appear on the surface. I'm talking from a sociological perspective, of course. The "science" of people. Of course it's pseudoscience. But, then all science is pseudo-objective.

I've already said this, as well as atheism being a religion.

Because what I think a lot of times we forget is that religion didn't start out as what we think of it today. It used to be an integral part of life. natural. normal. We didn't question it.

It still is...I would argue...we are developing new religions all the time. Institution is religion. All institutions have authorities, icons, symbols, and rituals. For example, when you go to the doctor's office you accept what they have to tell you with regard to your health as truth. We accept authority, all the time, everyday, without thinking about. It's a good thing because we need these types of institutions. We need science. We need religion. Science is religion. Religion is not a science. Science is an art-form.

Institutionalization is a process over time.

We are now in the process of substituting science as authority, over more traditional religions, in the "developed world".

I'm def. an anti-authoritarian by nature. So, I think, all religion is generally evil (as an institution*). Including science. But...I am aware of the need for religion and authority.

Religion is good...it's evil...it's unabashedly human.

Agree? Disagree? Think I'm insane? (who isn't?)