(originally written September 10, 2005 in Book 2)
Why I am not a Christian
Bertrand Russell
1957
The New Generation
The world is changing. Gone are the days when religion pounced upon fear, making it a duty and turning resignation into a virtue. The old ways of man being prone to live off of his environment are gone. Now modern man, in which there are only a few samples alive today, does not accept nature with thankfulness of prayer but considers nature raw material for his scientific manipulations.
Science has replaced God because we know evil is not of Satan, but of a lack of understanding.
Satan no longer creates sin; "bad glands and unwise conditions" of children birth sin.
"Sin is what is disliked by those who control education" (Russell, 159).
The change of the new generation must come through a change in child rearing.
"More and more departments of child nurture have to be taken away from the home" (Russell, 160).
The family must be slowly phased out and childcare must be regulated more by the state.
Family dies, childbearing becomes a profession, the state assumes the position of parents, evening the playing filed and removing traumatic and prejudices which are bad for raising children.
The state will increase in power and superstition will decrease when knowledge is spread.
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