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(In »The three dramatic revolutions of the Internet age«)

Religion can be summed up as various practices carried out by people in search of meaning in their lives. This is so, no matter whether the religion in question takes that meaning as preordained, as something revealed, or as something that is to be sought and created within the framework of religion. Building a credible religion is primarily about long-term thinking and enormous patience. It is the only intellectual discourse that does not allow itself to become the object of tendentiousness. Religion can never be a fashion. Regardless of whether religion is theist, atheist or syntheist, it is of the utmost importance that it is kept separate from the secular. Politics goes deeper than markets, but religion goes deeper than politics. And theology invariably rests deep down underneath philosophy.