The dead were also removed from view, literally, when Reformation iconoclasts whitewashed hundreds of colorful religious murals inside Medieval churches to remove any trace of Catholicism.
A U.S. Appeals Court has recently ruled that a 40-foot high cross located at a busy intersection in Bladensburg, Maryland violates the Establishment Clause of the Constitution because it is located on public land and maintained at government expense.
Falling away from church, moral codes and belonging has created depression and anxiety. It has created a sense that one is alone no matter how many strangers surround them.
The loss of faith, of religion, of church membership - and this goes for all faiths, all religions, all churches - is a loss of the most fundamental bind which has held communities and nations together for as long as Man has walked the Earth.
I grew up in the 1950s and ‘60s with the science versus religion debate in full swing. It was and is, the major philosophical argument of the modern era and I found both sides electrifying and puzzling at the same time.
That religions together and in unison will bring a new enlightened age where spirituality and Godliness will once again rise above materialism and where we all win.
The most popular attraction is always the chimp enclosure, where people get to sit and laugh at the antics of the resident troupe—a caricature and mirror of human society.