Indeed, Amos...one of the things modern technology- including 150 channels of TV and the internet- have brought me is an overwhelming sense of how much of the world and the people in it are ruled ummm... influenced... by ignorance and superstition.

   I have also learned how delicate & dangerous it can be to say so.

As Sorcha notes, those who **believe** that vague images on rusting water tanks and corn chips and jar lids can BE mystic, religious symbols are serious about it, and are a force that needs 'coping'.... and I'm sure some of them are also capable of doing harm to those who doubt!

We humans are, relatively, barely a tiny way out of caves, and technology has proceeded far faster than understanding & education in many of the important areas.

I wish I could live to see REAL 'civilization'.