I Think Religion For Many People Is

I Think Religion For Many People Is Some Sort Of Moral Viagra.

After Darwin, God's Role Changes From Being The Designer Of All Creatures Great And Small To Being The Designer Of The Laws Of Nature, From Which Natural Selection Can Unfold, To Being Perhaps Just The Chooser Of The Laws. By The Time God's Role Has Been So Diminished, He Becomes A Bit Like A Constitutional Monarch, Presiding Ceremonially But Not Having Any More Work To Do. That's A Place For God If It Makes People Comfortable To Keep God As The Presider Over The Universe. I Suppose That Is Satisfying For Many.

While We Tend To Conceive Of The Operations Of The Mind As Unified And Transparent, They're Actually Chaotic And Opaque. There's No Invisible Boss In The Brain, No Central Meaner, No Unitary Self In Command Of Our Activities And Utterances. There's No Internal Spectator Of A Cartesian Theater In Our Heads To Applaud The March Of Consciousness Across Its Stage.

The Best Thing About Saying Thank Goodness In Place Of Thank God This That Here Really Are Lots Of Ways Of Repaying Your Debt Of Goodness - By Setting To Create More Of It, For The Benefit Of Those To Come.

No Matter How Smart You Are, You're Smarter If You Take The Easy Ways When They Are Available.