It's the religion thing, isn't it? We stop believing in God, but it leaves such a huge, gaping, black hole and it hurts so much that we panic and rage and go round looking for things- any old things- to stuff into the emptiness.
I forget the name of the theologian who stated that modern man carries with him a God-shaped hole. Is religion a "survival", a holdover from our evolutionary childhood, and like a child clinging to a pacifier no longer needed we refuse to give it up? Or are we inherently, intuitively drawn to something Inexpressible, something that our assorted dogmas and cultures only give the barest glimpse of? I think in America anyway, most people gave up on God (not organized religion, but the Divine) because He/She/It requires self-denial, the ultimate taboo in a culture predicated on individualism and self-love.
On another topic - haven't (and probably won't) see Serenity, liked Tolkien and Jackson's interpretation of him, and am utterly floored people don't see the Star Wars prequels (and Return of the Jedi, for that matter) for the sticky-sweet, badly acted, pop psychology kiddie-fodder they are.
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I forget the name of the theologian who stated that modern man carries with him a God-shaped hole. Is religion a "survival", a holdover from our evolutionary childhood, and like a child clinging to a pacifier no longer needed we refuse to give it up? Or are we inherently, intuitively drawn to something Inexpressible, something that our assorted dogmas and cultures only give the barest glimpse of? I think in America anyway, most people gave up on God (not organized religion, but the Divine) because He/She/It requires self-denial, the ultimate taboo in a culture predicated on individualism and self-love.
On another topic - haven't (and probably won't) see Serenity, liked Tolkien and Jackson's interpretation of him, and am utterly floored people don't see the Star Wars prequels (and Return of the Jedi, for that matter) for the sticky-sweet, badly acted, pop psychology kiddie-fodder they are.