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Because for a long time, free markets coincided with liberties such as free speech, free press, free religion.
This is a lovely book by a friend of mine named Lee Siegel, who's a professor of religion, actually, at the University of Hawaii, and he's an expert magician, and an expert on the street magic of India, which is what this book is about, "Net of Magic."
But, of course, our secular religion is technology.
This is going to change science, I believe, and it will change religion.
Again, people have been hated, denied, because of their nationality, their identity, their race, their gender, their religion.
I think they're right that evolution is fundamentally hostile to religion.
But here, I only want to make the point that the elegance of Darwinism is corrosive to religion, precisely because it is so elegant, so parsimonious, so powerful, so economically powerful.
And at this point I need to acknowledge the remarkable taboo against speaking ill of religion, and I'm going to do so in the words of the late Douglas Adams, a dear friend who, if he never came to TED, certainly should have been invited.
In my view, not only is science corrosive to religion; religion is corrosive to science.
As Carl Sagan, another recently dead hero, put it, "How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought!
A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths."
Many of you probably subscribe to our polite cultural belief that we should respect religion.
But I also suspect that a fair number of those secretly despise religion as much as I do.
We get them from religion, from culture, teachers, elders.
Seclusion of women was actually a Byzantine and Persian practice, and Muslims adopted it and made it a part of their religion.
But still, if you're going to speak about a Muslim culture, this has a core: the divine message which began the religion.
And they've thought, "Oh, what a horrible religion that is, which ordains something like that."
Islam, actually, as a monotheistic religion, which defined man as a responsible agent by itself, created the idea of the individual in the Middle East, and saved it from the communitarianism, the collectivism of the tribe.
Which means that Muslims can, today, look at those things and say, "Well, the core of our religion is here to stay with us.
And they looked back at Islamic tradition, and saw that there are problematic aspects, but they're not the core of the religion, so maybe they can be re-understood, and the Koran can be reread in the modern world.
An identity was defined primarily by religion.
Africa has had a mixed affair with organized religion, with both positive and negative consequences.
A recent "Economist" article said that the face of the future of the world's most popular religion is African.
In fact, six of the 10 countries where 95 percent of the population said that religion was an important part of their daily lives, were African.
In some cases, religion drives many Africans to extraordinary length: to attack other human beings, to commit ritual killing, targeting those living with albinism, those with a humpback, and as I recently learned, those with a bald head.
As I mentioned last year, I grew up with no religion at all.
There have been some very vocal atheists who've pointed out, not just that religion is wrong, but that it's ridiculous.
I think it's too easy to dismiss the whole of religion that way.
If you don't believe in a religion, there's nothing wrong with picking and mixing, with taking out the best sides of religion.
And a thorough study of religion could give us all sorts of insights into areas of life that are not going too well.
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