…to the present day. But the rest of the universe was not progressing. Some philosophers like Herbert Spencer in England and Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels said that progress must be a universal law, not just a biological law. But the physicists said, no,…

…people losing jobs, killing, and then you tell yourself, but what is this? Isn't life just a fleeting appearance? Religion comes, Marx says, from the sigh of the oppressed. I think today we live in a post-Cartesian, post-Christian world. Are the New Age…

…is what we have in Scotland instead of the Anglican Church, and much better. Scots always say that. There's a line in Marx, which is often quoted or misquoted, Religion comes, Marx says, from the sigh of the oppressed, the suffering of the downtrodden…

…Church, and much better. Scots always say that. There's a line in Marx, which is often quoted or misquoted, Religion comes, Marx says, from the sigh of the oppressed, the suffering of the downtrodden people. Religion, Marx said, is the opiate of the…

…quoted or misquoted, Religion comes, Marx says, from the sigh of the oppressed, the suffering of the downtrodden people. Religion, Marx said, is the opiate of the people. It's their way of escaping from unbearable realities that they find themselves trapped…

…represent as a Christian has in some sense got too tied in to the kind of systems of economics and production that Marx was targeting when he said those famous things. People find themselves in a reality which is unbearable because it's been mechanised,…

…impressed by this. I think what Rupert is describing is indeed the withering away of the state, but not exactly as Marx had it in mind, but that effective action will become increasingly local and increasingly non-governmental. You know, that's why, to come…