VERSION|0.5.1|SUBJECT|Shaikh Abdal Hakim Murad, Muslim Chaplain Cambridge University (the Shaikh formerly known as Tim Winter)|CONTENT|[b]Rating[/b] 4 out of 5 (Highly platitudinous but mostly delusional)

[url=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap130305.html][img=images/2013/03/pic130305.jpg popup=false float=right][/url]And the big news today is that in three weeks time it will be the anniversary of the [url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/mar/02/beeching-wrong-about-britains-railways]Beeching cuts[/url], when Britain's railways were savagely cut because everyone was going to drive everywhere from now on. What a short sighted view that has turned out to be as more and more people take to the trains again.

I can now confidently predict that the same will happen to religion. In 50 years time people will be queueing up to get back into all these empty churches. People may think that religion is a load of old tosh right now, that you have to be a right gullible twit to believe in an Invisible Magic Friend along with angels and demons, that books written thousands of years ago by semi-nomadic tribes hold the answers to today's problems, but you just wait and see. Yes, the churches look increasingly backward, corrupt and hypocritical but backwardness, corruption and hypocrisy will be all the rage again one day.

Young people will eagerly buy tickets for church services at [url=http://www.thetrainline.com/]www.thechurchline.com[/url], with large discounts available for advance booking, off peak worship and flexible denominations. There will be the inevitable disappointment when their chosen church is closed for emergency work and they have to use the replacement portakabin instead.

It's inevitable. People crave the answers and meaning that only religion can give. If there is one thing in this world that I can be absolutely 100% confident about, it's that more and more people will be clamouring for more religion in the future.

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