No, I think religion is about getting along with other people. =)
Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com
Author, "Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme"
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From: owner-virus@lucifer.com [mailto:owner-virus@lucifer.com]On Behalf
Of Eric Boyd
Sent: Monday, April 19, 1999 1:15 PM
To: virus@lucifer.com
Subject: Re: virus: Religion of the future
Brodie,
Thanks for a great message.
I have a question for you: is it accurate to say that religion must change from being group centered to individual centered, i.e. that the important unit in religion is no longer the "flock" (of sheep) but rather the "pack" (of wolves), or even possibly the individual?
If so, I'd just point out that such changes have happened in religion
before -- Jesus and the Buddha were both responsible for making
religion more of a personal thing than it had been before, and the
reformation (following Luther) was, amoung other things, about
empowering individuals to take control of their religion back from the
Catholic Church. Do you see the coming changes in religion as
*repeating* what has gone before to any extent?
ERiC