Religious Engineering :: Remember, remember, the velvet November


node:	Religious Engineering
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parent:	frank herbert - The Godmakers
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Every sapient creature needs a religion of some kind.

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Humans are power hungry, religious engineering never stops.

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That sounds like a Voltaire: "If there would be no God, it would be neccessary to create one."

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A religion requires numerous dichotomic relationships. It needs believers and unbelievers. It needs those who know the mysteries and those who only fear them. It needs the insider and the outsider. It needs both a god and a devil. It needs absolutes and relativity. It needs that which is formless (though in the process of forming) and that which is formed.

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"It is by death that life is known," the Abbod said. "Without the eternal presence of death there can be no awareness, no ascendancy of consciousness, no withdrawal from the gridded symbols into the void-without-background."

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One of the essential problems in engineering a religion for any species is to recognize and refrain from inhibiting those self-regulating systems in the species upon which the species' survival depends.

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Part of our problem centers on the effort to introduce external control for a system-of-systems that should be maintained by internal balancing forces. We are not attempting to recognize and refrain from inhibiting those self-regulating systems in our species upon which species survival depends. We are ignoring our own feedback functions.