Religion, Rational Society, and the Modern Concept of Peace

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Although mankind has succeeded in producing a technological order which encapsulates rationality, man's own personal behaviour is only superficially more rational than it ever was. Rational responses are a consequence of the need to negotiate our affairs in an increasingly rationally planned environment. Underneath there remain tensions and aggression, and with them the threat of social breakdown into hostility and war. Increased dependence on the rationalized social order has caused us to attend less and less to the problem of educating the emotions. Religion has, at times, played a part in that education, but can it still function in our secular, rationalized environment?