Islam is a peaceful religion.
Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.
The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion when they should be using it to protect religion.
I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.
Indeed the acknowledgement of God is not synonymous with religion.
It's not just the effect of technology on the environment on religion on the economic structure on society on politics etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life.
Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse and morality without religion is impossible.
We are pre-disposed for fantasy there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.
Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.
Religion you can't a handle on it you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.