Hi Amos,

Population surveys show that the human brain is active with superstition and remember what happens when people react on the basis of their "instinct" or "gut". (Does Bush foreign policy come to mind?) This 80 per cent is not valid data because it hasn't been legitimately tested. It's the old fallacy in classical logic, "People have always believed".

"Spirituality" is one of those words that can't reasonably be defined because as it suggests, it is made of, well, spirit which is some kind of air or "nothingness".

Jack the Sailor,
Laugh all you want but the nature of religion is fixed upon ideology, and if it changes, it does so by becoming diversified by competing fixed ideologies,
hence we have wars, tribal feuds, auto-da-fes, Crusades and internecine struggles between sects of one particular religion. Why people fight over religion is that the more it is accepted, the more authoritarian it becomes. One way it changes for the better is when people begin to see what it is and reject it. It would be enlightening for people to become adults and lessen their dependency on father figures, angels and sky gods.