I concur that we agree on some point, but the point at which you seem to pick a disagreement surprises me, seeing that we even agree on that point. The problem with man is not God or religion, but the abuse and misrepresentation of religion and the use of God’s name in lording it over others. Please, let me stress that a philosophy is not bad because of it’s missed used, any philosophy, any world view even that of Nature admirer or worshiper could be abused and miss used for human selfish purposes, and this could quickly become tyrannical.

Yes I do, admire and enjoy nature, but in doing this, I’m logically compel to seek and know more about the one that put together all these beauty in nature that I so much enjoy. It’s like saying, I like and admire a painting, wouldn’t it make logical sense to go further and try to know who the artist is that painted the painting? The fact that we can’t see God with our physical eyes doesn’t mean God doesn’t exist. There are millions of things we can’t see but still believe they exist, like the wind, atoms, quarks, electrons, blackhole, other dimension of existence lower and higher than ours… A being that exist in one dimensional universe can’t perceive a being from a three dimensional universe. So trying to define and limit God with our very limited senses and perception of the universe is detrimental and presumptuousness at most.

Now talking about Henry Thoreau, Mark Twain, Carl Sagan, Edward Wilson, their philosophical disposition I’m well aquatinted with, humanistic, atheistic and naturalistic, all these I’ve taken the time to familiarized myself with and even beyond, and I’m very comfortable in discussing the flaws inherent within these world views. In return I would suggest you try this author “Ravi Zacharias“, J.P. Moreland, Michael J. Behe. Till we human understand, fully grasp and imbibe the concept of true love we are bound to keep making the same mistake over and over again.
Thank you…

It wasn’t meant to be a complete, comprehensive study of the culture, but rather I meant for it to get people really thinking critically about our present day cultural quagmire. To write a comprehensive and well elaborated article on this subject, means I would have to write a book, and at this moment time doesn’t permits me that opportunity.