Social Impact
It is impossible to consider the social and scientific implications ofthe 'quantumizing' of religion and science without putting that convergenceinto at least a recent perspective. The events of September 11, 2001, can That day, it became clear that all the supposed separations betweennations, peoples and beliefs could be punctured by a group of extremists,spouting slogans but basically untutored in the new realities. Thehijackers rammed the epitome of human construction with the epitome ofhuman travel, and elicited the epitome of pre-modern response to it allfrom a government unaware that for most people, ideas of territory,ownership in the old sense, and the "Christian" order were all breakingdown. This event, wrote British sociologist Zygmunt Bauman in the new-agejournal, Tikkun, "fits the role of the symbolic end to the era of spacebetter than any other event in recent memory." (Bauman, 2002) The event itself was grounded in old ideas of nations, one favored byGod over others, and such pre-metaphysical realities. The U.S. governmentresponse to it was grounded in the same place, and the populace, by andlarge, stood behind it. But a year later, when that a
" (Swearer 1997) In all cases, Buddhism coexisted with local Eastern tradition, as it haswith Western religions. "The new spirituality has moved American religionaway 'from what is beyond us to what is within us,' Mr. Far from sending people farther from a spiritual quest, theconvergence of scientific and religious new realities, is sending people ona search for meaning; it is no longer to be found in a bunch of rules,scientific or religious. She argued for the oneness of all things and experience,the unity of matter and energy, but she did it not in from a scientific,but a religious, background. " There is no dichotomy there, either. It isas likely to quote from Lao Tzu and Bob Dylan as from Jesus Christ. Science hasshown that order runs deeper than once imagined, even amidst apparentchaos. His Screwtape Letters, for adults,concerned morality issues that transcended religious practice per se. The Roman CatholicArchdiocese of Washington began "Theology on Tap" meetings at a pub onWednesdays; talk about strange convergences! But it has been verysuccessful. ) It is likely that the convergence of science and religion and theirbasic agreement on the nature of the universe/man/God will cause no moreupheaval than that already felt. Suddenly, people were aware that killing one person to avengeanother contradicted the ideas of unity they were getting from both scienceand religion; they realized that religion and science both saw all natureas one, even if they knew nothing consciously about quantum physics(science) or metaphysics (religion. The fact that westerners have accepted Buddhism so well for the pastcouple of decades augurs well for the social fabric remaining intact asmore and more people come more and more to understand the unity of scienceand religion, and of all things.
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