The Future of Religion in the 21st Century

by CCV · Published 08/08/2015 · Updated 08/08/2015

Respected readers of CCV are codially invited to watch the video of a talk by Yuval Noah Harari my son sent me with the following note:

"I wish this had been the contents of my religion classes during school: an understandable theory with clear definitions accompanied with examples along with risk and opportunities of each of those examples…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh1MUVwHqvU

… instead of those braindead stories they told us — to which I was luckily immune; partly thanks to you. So: thank you for that!"

(Zacharias Nedunkanal, Associate editor, CCV)

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almayasabdam says:

08/08/2015 at 11:26 am

Thank you James for your piece of mind. I go with it as it is more sensible to me than the vew expressed by Yuval Noah Harari, which might please the modern IT-brains. My intention in sharing the video was to insist on the principle that people should be alloed to make their on choices and decisions as they become mature, instead of filling their heads with precalculated religious dogmas which they would any way find as not holding water. I wish more readers come forward with their view points.

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almayasabdam says:

08/08/2015 at 10:41 am

This comment was sent by the chief editor of CCV after watching the Video. A well thought out and erudite conclusion.

"Thank you for your U tube lecture. I listened to the entire lecture. I have been following liberal humanism (humane humanity is my version of religion guided from my inner self, the commanding conscience.) Now according to the speaker it should now be GUIDED BY the Machine (google) and not the Man who should be the master. I am not convinced of it yet. Google may remember more than I can but can't decide what is good for me. That can be decided only by the controller of the "Providential happenings" (which some call God but I can't prove it. I only know that it is beyond my control, above reason, need not be contrary to reason. I am in search of that controller) I won't give that autonomy to a Machine (Deus ex machina).

And connected with it is the problem of evil and the suffering of the innocent which militates against a Merciful God we have been taught from childhood from all eternity. I may never find an answer. Therefore I am longing with a great desire to poll-vault over the great wall of death, or penetrate through the Iron curtain or bamboo curtain to see for myself what is actually beyond, like doubting questioning Thomas — want to see if God the father has a beard, if Jesus is sitting in the lap of Mary, if the Dove is flying around and if St.Joseph is furtively after that dove with a gun tucked behind his back to take revenge for the nasty thing it did even before he got married to Mary etc. Once I have touched and seen, I shall come back and tell you. Till that time I just don't know. If I don't come back just think there is nothing beyond that Iron curtain.

So I gave you a piece of my mind and my constant prayer is: Lord that I may see, blind that I am like Barthemus. God bless you, zach. james Kottor.

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