The New Age

The more I read about the current political climate; about religious fanaticism, terrorism, dogmatic belief systems and such, the more convinced I am that what's going on in the world at the moment is an enormous, painful intergration of humanity from which will evolve a new way of thinking, incorporating a new spirituality that incorporates aspects of the old religions, but discards large, redundant elements within them.

There can be no real place in any part of the world for mosques, churches, synagogues and other places of worship to exist alongside each other. Every religion forms from a limited understanding of something divine and transcendent, and as such has a geographical component. You can't uproot Islam, for example, and expect it to exist in a western culture without changes occurring within that religion and the host culture. That's not what integration is about.

And there can never be integration when fundamental beliefs are at odds.

So it either means that the two bodies remain at odds, or some new way of integrating the beliefs is arrived at. And that means questioning the very fundamentals of the belief systems, and seriously questioning the logic of them. That can be the only way.

The old religions are firmly rooted in a dogma that lends itself to the kind of simplistic, faulty and irrational logic that leads to fundamentalist acts of terrorism. The very fact that they appeal to the youth is precisely because youth has a limited but dangerous grasp of logic.

There has to be some new movement that draws people away from the old religions by highlighting the logical errors within them.

And that's exactly what the New Age, newly enlightened religion will be. It will be a religion for the whole world, based on a new perspective of the intangible and mystical.

And these are the interesting times, I believe, in which that new religion - a religion for the whole world - is being conceived.

Just as churches are being abandoned all over Britain as the British are losing their faith in conventional Chritianity, the mosques will become empty, God willing, too.

Islam, Christianity, Judaism, and all the rest need to be peacefully euthanized, and now wouldn't be a moment too soon. Their books can be kept as reminders of how we used to think, just the way we keep books written by Euclid and the ancient Greeks. They're not holy - just relics of a bygone logic, and of a limited understanding of the universe.