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Originally Posted by Moontanman
Agreed, we need a new belief system but sadly any new belief system would be just as vigorously opposed as current belief system oppose each other now. Humanity shows no sign of becoming more rational any time soon . I would even go as far as to to say that irrationality seems to be in the increase.
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Oh, I don't think people are LESS rational now than they were before! It used to be that even scientists (such as the great ones of the 17th and 18th century) believed in God and spirits. Now, it is mainly only the Penticolstals, Baptists and Evangelicals in the US. In the rest of the world, there are billions of people who believe secularly and are only liberal in their belief in their own religions.
Besides, even ancient people were rational. The just didn't know what we have gradually learned. Then, they based their agricultural or herding or hunting technologies on spirit causation. It was still cause and effect they used. Now we find more accurate cause and effect patterns and processes not based on "spirit thinking."
What holds these old religions together and makes them last so long and have such influence is that they all answer the question: "what is our origin, our goal(s), how do we achieve them (the moral system) and what stands in our way?" We can answer all those questions
scientifically (advanced) and, hence, have an ideology that is much more self-consistent than even the major faiths are. Being self-consistent turns it into a closed system and hence one that can endure for centuries.
Such a belief system would have to set space exploration and colonizing as the prime goal.
Right now, funding for NASA is totally inadequate and not growing. At any time, it could be cut. People are increasingly less and less interested in it.
Some actually resent the "waste of money" that it costs. After all, our secular goal is only "the pursuit of happiness." What can you expect?
