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I think we come from different perspectives, Greenslade. You say religion and spirituality are declining and going away, replaced with this 'God gene' materialism. What I believe is that there is no such thing as linear process, there is only the illusion of it if we take a beginning point and an end point, say the year 500 compared to the year 1500.
I believe belief systems and ideologies are cyclical, and tied in with the economic status of a civilization and whether the answers given are satisfactory for the people in that time period. Just as peace and conflict come and go, but cannot be eradicated. Everything that grows carries the seed of its own destruction, but the process just repeats itself. There is no true linearity. I believe this also happens on a universal level, from one universe into another.
The ''Fall from Paradise'' may happen continuously and indefinitely.
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