18 August

When I post about the church, this is the historical sort of background I'm talking about. It's not about whether a person is 'religious' or not, it's much broader. We don't understand religion, we've turned it into a belief in things. It's much, much more than that. It built our entire civilisation. A basic historical fact, completely unrelated to the whole religion/anti-religion debates. How it did that is something we no longer understand. But we'll need to, if we're going to survive.