Comments on: Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/nobel-laureate-wole-soyinka/ Reflections of a working writer and reader Sat, 19 May 2012 08:23:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Andrew http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/nobel-laureate-wole-soyinka/comment-page-1/#comment-96486 Andrew Wed, 04 Jul 2007 14:54:55 +0000 http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/nobel-laureate-wole-soyinka/#comment-96486 <p>I don't think the notion of humanity without religion is a meaningful question- it's not like wondering would we be better off wihtout an historical event like the French Revolution. It seems that from within every culture have arisen religious philosophies to the point where this expression is an integral aspect of consciousness, and that rather than being ways of making sense of life, it is a reflection of profound states of being. How the religious feeling or religions may become fixed dogmatic entities is a different matter but an interesting point is how St Francis came pretty close to losing his life earlier than he did due to his notion that the self-realisation of Christainity would be the dissolution of the Church as the religion should be a means to an end, the end being enlightenment, as opposed to an end in itself.</p> I don’t think the notion of humanity without religion is a meaningful question- it’s not like wondering would we be better off wihtout an historical event like the French Revolution. It seems that from within every culture have arisen religious philosophies to the point where this expression is an integral aspect of consciousness, and that rather than being ways of making sense of life, it is a reflection of profound states of being. How the religious feeling or religions may become fixed dogmatic entities is a different matter but an interesting point is how St Francis came pretty close to losing his life earlier than he did due to his notion that the self-realisation of Christainity would be the dissolution of the Church as the religion should be a means to an end, the end being enlightenment, as opposed to an end in itself.

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