What do you mean, bro? The books that preserve that heritage will always exist, and presumably we don't need the actual religious beliefs to experience what people call the 'spiritual' side of life (whatever that ends up being), so it's the best of both worlds really. That is, it is the best of both worlds unless you think spirituality isn't possible unless we believe that, say, a first-century carpenter is listening in on our thoughts and will decide our eternal fate on the basis of their content.
i fully agree with you. i'm referring to the human tendency to throw the baby out with the bath water. though on second thought, there really is no baby left... it's really heartbreaking to see what a joke organized religion is now.
A saying of the Prophet Muhammed seems relevant here:
KnowledgeThe Prophet said: “There will be a time when knowledge is absent.”
Ziad son of Labid said: “How could knowledge become absent, when we repeat the Koran, and teach it to our children, and they will teach it to their children, until the day of requital?”
The Messenger answered: “You amaze me, Ziad, for I thought that you were the chief of the learned of Medina. Do the Jews and the Christians not read the Torah and the Gospels without understanding anything of their real meaning?”
(Caravan of Dreams by Sayed Idries Shah).
