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Today we
stand at a turning point in history the current elites have failed and dynamic
forces are in motion that are going to create major changes the details of
these factors can be found in articles such as our world future outlook report
on our website and we are not going to go into them in detail here what we are
going to talk about here is a subject that we should talk more about which is
the role of religion in the coming turmoil in the 21st century indeed you could
say that think about and that it would not be a priority this is not happening
the. Shall we say of secularism is coming to an end it basically didn't work
the concept that you that all you have is here is not very compelling in life
it's not very compelling and specifically not very compelling in the face of
tragedy and in the face of disaster no it's not very compelling so people seek
out purpose they seek out hope and the hope of being reborn in a better world
is an enormously compelling force it's also an enormously compelling force to
feel that there is a God who cares someone you can talk to so on and so forth
this is a very compelling force throughout all areas of religion in
Christianity people feel they can talk to Jesus directly or the Virgin Mary
directly or sometimes the saints are in Buddhism you have the various
incarnations of boot so on and so forth and paganism you have all sorts of different
gods who supposedly help people out in specific situations and so on and so
forth this is a very compelling and very comforting to people it's very
comforting the people to feel that they are not alone the secular paradise that
was proposed didn't work it just isn't that compelling and isn't that
satisfying now as things go downhill the interest in religion is going to grow
and this is going to be a very important factor as things unfold some
interesting questions as we look around the world
one interesting
enigma in the world religion is the case of China China you have a totalitarian
government that is obviously mortally terrified of religion in light of their
horrendous persecution of the fallen gun cult that is an element of paranoia
that is to a certain extent understandable in terms of Chinese history of the
Taiping rebellion the white lotus rebellion if you're familiar with Chinese
history the series of religious rebellions are question about China is that the
party what what are that one of they have to offer the Chinese people other
than some of the polluted wasteland and a growing GNP and so on certain certain
amount of nationalism standing up to America etc. etc. is that going to be
enough were very skeptical about that and chide the religious vacuum in China
could be filled and could be filled by something horrendous were not at all
convinced about the grip of the people at the top and shine on the whole
situation Japan today is also somewhat more somewhat unstable situation
religiously these but it is not the same thing as China when you have a
government that is crushed all forms of independent thought and so on and so
forth so that's an interesting question of what may be coming up were going to
elaborate on this at a future lecture