Reclusland

Religions were needed to be strong and dogmatic to offer shelter from the forces of reality which were, at that time, largely unknown to people.

We are now, ever since the industrial revolution, or even the renaissance, moving towards a word in which more and more of these forces that shape and move things are understood.

This is not to say that everyone in the world has a grasp of why things happen, but that we are all, mostly, aware of the fact that someone, somewhere, does know these things.  More importantly, we feel strongly, much more then we ever have, that these things are able to be known.

And hence, no religion.  No need for dogma, blind faith, overarching creator/controller/destroyer god.

Man has come to fill the space previously occupied by these gods.

But that leaves us with less and less of a need for anything that permanently is.  What is better is for small groups or communities of people to make agreements amongst each other as to which structures, which interpretations or reality, best fulfill their needs.

It is my theory that any questions raised as an argument to this statement are grounded in the search for a permanent truth, way of being, interpretation of reality, or ontology.  There is no permanent truth, other than everything.

The search for a permanent truth is the search for that-which-always-is.  We already are a part of that-which-always-is, everything is already that-which-always-is.  Just that no thing ever is-without-end, except for the very fact of is-ness.