Time to advance beyond primitive religious beliefs

Our hunger for peace and security compels us to launch a new era in human history. Our limitation is not technology, it's primitive religious beliefs. Our religions, the products of the infancy of our intelligence, formed long before the Age of Science, retard and divide us.

We don't drive vehicles that are thousands of years old. Chariots don't run down our streets. Yet, we cling to religious beliefs thousands of years old. Many people exist in a supernatural world of fiction and fantasy. They do not understand our reality and its behavioral demands.

An obstacle to human progress, these primitive beliefs must be replaced by a nonreligious, reality-based understanding of what is sacred in our world and cannot, at our peril, be violated, damaged, dishonored, or destroyed.

We must do this if we and all the life forms on this jewel of a planet are to survive. Only then will we arrest and reverse our destructive and unsustainable momentum, end our needless suffering, find peace, sustain humanity, and advance our civilization.

The 100-page book, "ONE, For the Third Millennium," provides a nonreligious understanding of what is sacred in our world. Seven words replace all the world's religions.

A free PDF copy of the book is available at www.ONEitistime.com. The author's bio (Harvard Divinity School and far more) and testimonials are there.

Joe Simonetta

Bradenton

This story was originally published November 23, 2015 at 12:00 AM with the headline "Time to advance beyond primitive religious beliefs ."