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Thursday, May 12, 2016

Coping With The Miseries Of Life

Some Rabbis in Toronto recently held a public debate entitled "Putting God Second." The question was asked: "Why are the great monotheistic faiths – Judaism, Christianity and Islam unable to fulfil their own self-professed goal of creating individuals infused with moral sensitivity and societies governed by the highest ethical standards."

The significance of this question is that finally religious leaders have concluded that religion has failed to solve the world's problems, and nor could it; as Marx said, it was "the opiate of the people."

Only when the majority grasp the central fact that superstition is a way of coping with the miseries of life and reject it can we really start to abolish the cause of all misery.

John Ayers.

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