41) Those who are impatient to do away with those things which have very deep roots in our culture, no matter how irrational aspects of such things seem or even are, may well do far more damage than they could ever have envisaged.
42) What has come to be known as the 'new atheism' is simply replacing one form of superstition with another, which is the worship of the intellect as a form of cognition of far greater value than any other form of cognition. However the intellect alone is completely inept when it comes to knowing how to drive a car or ride a bicycle; such knowledge can only be acquired by the intelligence of the body. Likewise, the intellect alone cannot understand feeling, cannot even sense what another person is feeling and it is genuine feeling which gives colour to life.
43) If we are capable of observing ouselves we will see that the intellect, feeling and the intelligence of the body all work at different tempos and that this is at the root of many of our difficulties.
44) The origin of the word 'religion' is believed to come from the Latin verb 'religare' meaning to 'reconnect'. Could this 'reconnection' have originally meant working towards a greater balance of our intellectual, emotional and physical energies which, at the same time, may give us forms of perception that are available to us only when the intellectual, the emotional and the physical are working harmoniously together?
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