Someone wrote:

Seriously, ideas take hold when socieites are ready for them. They stay if they provide a function within that society.

Mark:

Hence the current problem with Christianity. Some of the ideas are no longer useful to 21st century people.

Another:

And if you don’t think that scares me silly, looking at what has taken hold and stayed in terms of popular tv….

Mark:

There is a general shift to the dumbing down of society with fit bodies and fat minds. Everything is geared to employment and expertise in doing but nothing on rational thinking and the value of living.

“Most Christians would rather die than think – and in fact they do.” – Bertrand Russell.