I take pride in hating evil as practised by murderous Muslim terrorists blasphemously pretending to act in the name of Allahu Akbar.

In the good company of politicians and religious leaders of all hues world wide I condemn the evil deed but I long for the day when evil-doers desist being evil and instead join the company of your exceptional “brave person” so that good Muslims living in peace and rescuing hostages from other Muslims would predominate and when they would become the rule, rather than an exception.

Wow taqattani, you profess that religion shackles freedom and promotes intolerance whilst your post is intolerant to any religion and shows hatred towards all those who follow a faith or a religion.

In your atheistic myopia you fail to see that you are intolerant to other people with different believes and ideas from yourself.

Peace be with you.

[Daphne – It’s not rubbish. Boys who grow up in care homes are statistically more likely to end up in prison. And everybody has biological parents, otherwise they wouldn’t exist. Scotch the normal, though.]

I would have not been at all not be someone else and so in your case as well there would have been no Daphne and where would that leave us today.

I am a believer in design rather than randomness and the fact that we can agree to disagree leaves us some hope that maybe in the distant future everyone will be able to do just that.

Francis give a it a break with your hate please. What are your thoughts on this brave person who saved many hostages. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/10/lassana-bathily_n_6448500.html

Not particularly religious myself, but I can’t help but notice that in the ‘more tranquil societies that are atheists’ something else has been made God. It ranges from a scale of faux humanism or overwhelming belief in science, (even though both are poorly understood by their subscribers) to all the people doing yoga to seek whatever these days.

Jung wrote extensively on how the question of God is inescapable. One of his best quotes on the matter:

“The idea of an all-powerful divine Being is present everywhere, unconsciously if not consciously, because it is an archetype. There is in the psyche some superior power, and if it is not consciously a god, it is the “belly” at least, in St. Paul’s words. I therefore consider it wiser to acknowledge the idea of God consciously, for, if we do not, something else is made God, usually something quite inappropriate and stupid such as only an “enlightened” intellect could hatch forth.”

Ah, those were the days.

I’m down to the last half dozen.

It’s actually a reflection of the length of time necessary for anything metacognitive to trickle down.

Religion was a medium for the trickling down.

Let’s not put the blame on it entirely that no other machine has been as efficient in its marketing of metacognitive markers.

If religion experienced a slowdown (in the last couple of hundred years), it’s hardly the case that an alternative showcase of metacognitive example has overtaken it.

No single ideology can today claim precedence, least so when it is restrictive.

Today’s “religion” is more likely to be a slow moving synched awareness.

The strength is in its synchronicity at any one moment.

This week it spiked and many were carried forward on the surge of it to a refreshing of priorities.

Of values.

Of the definition of civilisations.

And then again, back to religion, perforce.

But at every review the nature of the element change is more visible today.

The eternal juggle of order-chaos-order.