Writer highlights our place in the scheme of things

To the editor:

After being totally disillusioned by religion some years ago, I succeeded in developing a different worldview of my own, but it doesn’t necessarily contain anything new, it only rearranges certain bits and pieces of human knowledge and experience that stand up to reason.

On last week’s Faith page (May 28, 2013), Ron Haggett explained the bulk of my beliefs and feelings better than I have, but I’ll keep trying. Like him, I’m aware that religion is a necessary part of human culture.

However, I also believe that slowly and independently, individual human beings will eventually rise above the need for religious beliefs, because, one at a time, each of us will come to a truer understanding of our place in the scheme of things.

Art Carney

Wasilla