Anyone who reads this blog regularly probably thinks the answer is obvious. But the question is asked afresh and explored well in an article by Damien Walter in The Guardian with the same title as this blog post (HT John Morehead on Facebook).
It includes great quotes such as “Any sufficiently advanced technocrat will be indistinguishable from God” and “Religion is a battle ground, and walking away from it only concedes the war to your opponents.”
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