[lbo-talk] Age of Sexual Enlightenment?

[B.]

Things that can speak to "the third" -- which you list
as "the unknowable" -- and which you say religion
"should" speak to (er, why?) could also be dealt with,
for ex., the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, and all that
jolly old troupe. In fact, those mostly-unfalsifiable
beings are also are presented currently as viable
possibilities -- but to kids.

It looks like what you said was basically "religion is
what people can and should (!) believe in, until they
know better." I don't get the "should" part. Why
"should" religion to speak to people to anything,
least of all the "unknowable." Which often only seems
unknowable -- 'til you know it. (Like micro-organic
stuff, before the inventions of microscopy, or the
moon, before it was visited, among many, many others.)

-B.

Jordan Hayes wrote:

"I've always found it helpful to divide the world into
three categories: 1. The known 2. The unknown 3. The
unknowable At any moment in time, these are three
distinct subsets of the world. Items in each category
can change categories over time. Religious faith can
(and, IMHO, should) speak to the 3rd."