Is apethy wrong?

[Fkeu'itan]

I don't want to ruffle any feathers here, I just want to speak my mind.

After reading Woodsprite's post on the "What are your beliefs and why?" thread, I just thought to myself... Do I really care about religion?

As you can tell from that thread, i'm not a follower of any religion but I generally believe in acting kindly to everyone and everything, which in the send will pay it's dividends. I do however believe there is something beyond science, a human soul or 'being', but that's another subject... I take life as it comes and while I don't force my beliefs on anyone else (i'm tolerant of any religious belief and the people that hold them provided they are generally good people) I just think many concentrate and obsess far too much on what has been and gone.

This is the way I see it, we live in the now, not the past. Someone once said "If you do not learn history you are doomed to repeat it" and I agree with this completely. You cannot simply brush off every single year that has passed, lessons need to be learned not forgotten... I just feel many people, the scientists and religious alike, just fixate so hard on what has been - how we got here and what exactly happened millenia ago and spend so much time researching, debating, theorising and, in many cases, fighting over it that we are forgetting the problems of the present and the future and how we can go about fixing them.

Don't get me wrong, I am interested in discovering the secrets of the past, but do they really deserve more attention than the the problems of the present or the issues of the future?