Ushering In An Age of Reason....Or Not.....?

I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.

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John Steinbeck (Travels with Charley: In Search of America)

Religion and the belief in an afterlife seems immune from "rationality, reason and evidence based inquiry."Shamans (of all kinds) are selling immortality -- and who doesn't want that! -- but they are doing so with no evidence, just vast promises of future benefits that would make used car salesmen and politicians choke.So no, I see no age of reason on the horizon.

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Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.

I've been scanning this thread.A consensus of those things religionists agree upon would not be evidence. No matter how many people or groups agreed upon something, it isn't evidence without ... real evidence!If there was real evidence for the things various religions claim, there would not be some 4,000 world religions, nor would there be some 40,000 different flavors of Christianity alone! If there was real evidence, it would be possible to weigh competing claims and determine which are correct and which are not. Instead, we seem to be getting more and more different religions and sects as we go. These schisms and splits seem to me to show that all lack real evidence.See the tagline, below, that I've been using for several years.