Religion

If only people put as much time, effort and resources into debating the important problems of our world as they do into nit-picking over religion, then we may find we no longer need faith or superstition or philosophy to make our world a better place.

It's a strange world indeed. Christmas time makes it perhaps more apparent than at other times of the year the silly things that people do, or believe in, in the name of religion. Admittedly, religions are quite clever, with a defining feature for many being faith--not questioning the evidence, the history, the conclusions.

Dogma reigns supreme in our world. For whatever reasons people choose to believe, there is no evidence at all that any religion is 'true.' And even if there was a God, which religion would (s)he/it belong to? The world's main religions aren't exactly peaceful and are fundamentally incompatible.

I'll stop now. This issue always generates more heat than light.

I'll just refer to my universal theory of humankind: people are stupid.

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Nevertheless, Happy Christmas (it may have started as a religious festival, but in modern Sydney it has turned into a secular orgy of over-consumption and monstrously ghastly flashing things).