To insist that persistent rationality is the best means and hope for victory over enduring irrationality—that logical harnessing of facts could someday do away with the sacred and so end conflict—defies all that science teaches about our passion-driven nature. Throughout the history of our species, as for the most intractable conflicts and greatest collective expressions of joy today, utilitarian logic is a pale prospect to replace the sacred.
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Religion and the sacred, banned so long from reasoned inquiry by the ideological bias of all persuasions—perhaps because the subject is so close to who we want or don’t want to be—is still a vast, tangled, and largely unexplored domain for science, however simple and elegant for most people everywhere in everyday life.
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