Eternal Religious War

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I like the idea of 'modernity.' Old and odius ideas like Judaism and Mohammedism and Christianity are fixed. Those old and odius ideas never evolved into new ideas. They are the same today as they were two thousand years ago, and strangely, those old and odius ideas are valued today for their ancientness! Old is gold!

Old = Gold!

But really, Old equals Shit. All that is old is excrement, to use the digestion metaphor. Old Shit needs to be eliminated for reasons of health. Fail to eliminate old shit and you will die. Do you want to die? Not yet! So you shit. You piss. It is no different with philosophy and religion. The Human Body is nurtured over millenia by new ideas. Those ideas are in some sense sustenance. But old ideas need to be eliminated as historical excrement before the Human Body can survive and prosper in a new age. Now is the time to poop out old ideas.

I like the alternative to old and odious ideas, which I call, 'Eclecticism.' Eclecticism-as-religion is familiar with all previous versions of religion and seeks to unite those versions in some sense by picking out those qualities which seem to be true to all. Eclecticism eliminates the bizarre in religion. Religious Eclectics understand one another: the bizarre is apparently eliminated.

But the bizarre remains. Religious eclecticism then suggests a higher order of consideration: Science. True religious eclecticism demands that the opinions of Science be included in whatever final decision there is to be made.

This kind of religious eclecticism is what is needed in the modern world. Without it we will be forced to endure eternal religious war.