Lately I have been reading a book on Buddhism and Law and it has made me think about some of our history and laws that we have. Hammurabi's Code was one of the first sources of law in our world. but as we have evolved as a society many off shoots have been developed and incorporated into our cultures. While I am reading this book I am entranced by a country that is so in grained in religion that it seeps into the laws of the land and it made me think of our own country. We have a Republic at least some sort of semblance of one and we have some pretty screwed up rules but the most primal of those come from either human decency or some sort of spiritual text.
I believe in Science and there are rules within science as well thus categorizing it into a type of religion in my book. I consider religion to be a group of people with alike ideals who submit to certain rules and regulations within itself. therefore Science could be categorized as a religion in itself that it has a group of like minded people looking to achieve a better life or planet or such.
I really think we can move forward if we start to shed some of the older thinking and find something new.
