“The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.”
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Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.
The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to religion.
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.
