Religion And Wisdom
Intellect and wisdom are definitely enough to help solve the challenges of this world, however, religion’s main concern is the afterlife. The purpose of religion is to make us aware that our death is not the end of our lives. In that regard, it it provides us with due knowledge that we couldn’t ascertain otherwise. Hopefully you will find the following thread helpful in understanding the premise of religion: Discussion 1623
Brother, I respectfully disagree with your general statement The current age has improved only 1 thing, comfort. I do not mean only pleasurable things but made life easy in general. This comfort doesn’t mean “better” Because of the secular outlook in the last 300 yrs and recent atheistic paradigm, personal benefit, ease and pleasure is the ultimate goal or objective. Ask yourself, r humans better son, daughter, father or mother? Are humans better and honest and their work by their own free will? Are humans more concerned of the wellbeing of their coworkers, friends, society or r they self centered? We have more machines but less human contact and our morals r declining everywhere. There’s a company (among many) called Next in Japan. Their job is to clean out apartments after the lonely man/women’s death. Old people live alone and die alone and found months later (ave 2-months) most commonly found when rent doesn’t come and secondly putrid smell. Their sons & daughters never check on their father or mother. This is from the most tech country in the world. Here’s the article https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/world/wp/2018/01/24/feature/so-many-japanese-people-die-alone-theres-a-whole-industry-devoted-to-cleaning-up-after-them/