Is religion inevitable ??

Sun Jun  4 10:53:37 CDT 2006
When external forces drive this wedge between members of different groups(religions/classes/castes) how will people get back to
normal after the storm blows over. The feeling always lurks in your mind where you find yourself different from the other group.
You have forgive the other group from the bottom of your heart (not just in word, but from your sub-concious). It is inevitable
to have clashes between groups. I cannot see clashes not happening between groups of humans ever. Though cause and effect
keeps changing though. It should be part of primary education to teach people how to forgive others and realize that the worst
actions of the other group were perpetrated in their weakest moments. By perpetrating on the same acts you will just help
them rationalize their acts. Is religion the medium for spreading this realization ? Can something like the socratic method
work at young ages ? I say it has to work at young ages because, once you grow older you inevitably have a yellowed vision.

The human brain HAS to BELIEVE in certain facts to be able to generate an action. My minuscule reading on this topic ,
influenced primarily by Dr.V.S Ramachandran has given me the impression that the brain is like a state machine, which has to
generate an ouput based on whatever partial input it is given. It tries to use history to fill in values for the rest of the
inputs. When it goes into invalid states because it cannot possibly handle the inputs, we call it a mentally unstable condition.

Given this, does it not make education based on faith ineviatble ??

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