Quote Originally Posted by Coelho
Well... in our todays society, much of the role that was played by religion, the role of giving explanations about the things and such, is being played by the science.
Today, what is "scientifically proved" has the same unquestionable credit of what was "written in the Bible" some centuries ago... so i think in this respect todays society is as religious as the old societies... the only difference is the religion they follow.
In my personal opinion, i think our society should be more spiritual, instead more religious. By spiritual i mean to recognize the spiritual essence of the man, to recognize that there is far more things beyond the physical, the material. And i say it as a scientist (that i am). What we touch, see, hear, and percieve with our 5 senses is only a bit of everything that exists, and is a great mistake to think that what we see is all that there is to see. But todays society believes this more and more... and its not good. It will be one of the reasons for its end.
Derren Brown is a classic example of someone going from the happy clappy christian that he was to religiously following reasoning. So I'm with you on what we call religion.

As far back as I recall I have always thought there is far more going on than what we know. As you say about have more than what we can sense I've had that same idea myself.