Why is the modern mind so resistant to the idea of God? Why is our modern educational process so devoted to scientific and worldly thought development, at the expense of the enormous wealth of eons upon eons of human experience with the mystical, the theological, the mythological, the spiritual? Why is algebra more important to understand than, say, Zoroastrianism? One explanation might be that “mainstream” religious institutions, humanly-flawed, male-dominated, desperately dogmatic and frightened businesses, paradoxically lacking the faith that God will guide and protect them, have alienated the average soul. They have become irrelevant, causing on the one side the secularization of society, and on the other a flight of unenlightened seekers: people whose unsatisfied need for spiritual solace has turned them into a mass of fanatical, dangerously closed-minded religious zealots.
Nick Hilton - Reflections 