There's a crying need for new paradigms in religion!

Each major religion of today--Christianity, Judaism, Muslim--uses the stories of centuries ago as paradigms to show the relevance of living in society today --a really preposterous thing to do!  We can't well relate sowing seeds for harvest and enriching our plates today any more than we can think of our wearing a toga to work on Monday morning.

The point is that religion would do well to end the controversies dividing them because one religion thinks it must establish a kingdom here on earth--even if it be in a desert--while another thinks its kingdom can wait until the end of time, as we know it.  All these controversies miss what is invaluable to religious insight:  how we can relate to forces and Being beyond what we can see around us through its material presence in the physical world.