A Vast Bundle of Opportunities

The conventional view of religion is that the basic truths were settled long ago, that all we have to do is to accept them and behave accordingly. Essentially then, there is no room for originality. To be religious we have to be followers, adherents, to be convinced, addicted, to be in a position to say: we are right , you are wrong . In A Vast Bundle of Opportunities , originally published in 1975, Kenneth Barnes maintains that this is a sterile condition of mind. Religion is not a separate kin