It is interesting that Occam’s razor aligns perfectly with the drive for profit.

It takes much longer to investigate what we don’t understand. It is much cheaper, and more profitable (Thus safer for one’s career) to just summarily dismiss anything that is easier to dismiss.

Bertrand Russell’s words, that you quoted, appear to me to have more than one meaning.

We could interpret those words as meaning he didn’t believe in any religion.

Or we could interpret them as meaning he believed in all of them (as I personally do)

There might not be much evidence of any single religion being true.

But there appears to me to be overwhelming evidence they are all true.

Believing in all of them gives us real choice in which one(s) we might like to support.

By Occam’s razor, we dismiss that possibility, I think.

Would you have taken the time to write about, or even be thinking about this subject, if it had not been for covid, and the associated changes in our working habits and funding?

If the honest answer is no, then we should question what it was about our previous sources of funding, that handicapped our powers of enquiry, and the consequences of those on the past, and what needs to happen, to maximise not only our own powers of enquiry, but those of all people, for the future.

We need to have our eyes open, to recognise a miracle underway right now; the effects of free money, created from the extra-terrestrial source of all wealth and energy, the sun, being added to the world economy via things like Bitcoin.

Thanks for not summarily dismissing!