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21st Century Poet

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11. Religions won't go away.
Thu Mar 31, 2016, 03:22 PM
Mar 2016

Many people who abandon organised religion still say that they are spiritual (whatever that means). Religion is becoming more fluid but not really going away. Even many self-described non-religious people have all kinds of strange beliefs. The increase in homeopathy, traditional cures, alternative medicine and superstitious beliefs is immense, for example.

And the internet does more, and does it faster, to spread fact-less and evidence-less nonsense than any religion does. If you think that in 50 years' time, religions are going to be a thing of the past and people everywhere are going to be walking geniuses, you are going to be very disappointed.

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