Is Utopia preferable to religion?

If you’ve read my blog from yesterday, you might think I have far-fetched ideas and that I’m a Utopian, but what’s wrong with that, I wonder? 

Of course there are many levels in Utopia, the soft and the hard-core practitioners. Utopia, is perhaps the paradigm of a perfect community in which reality and imagination merge. 

There is a Utopian inside Elon Musk, but that has given us Tesla, SpaceX and tomorrow, the Hyperloop. 

In fact the whole concept isn’t that much different than the relation between society and religion. One could say that Utopia is the equivalent of Paradise, while Dystopia is Hell, so let’s focus on the bright side of the argument!

Utopia uses everyday raw materials and realities to build its story; Is has also a huge component of feasibility, at least on paper, while religion, from all of its history, has constantly been a real “stretch” and totally unproven, save a handful of Lourdes’ miracles. 

This said, tell me why we always laugh at Utopians but generally treat religious folks with the utmost respect? Sometimes, new ideas need a lift and only Utopia can provide a pathway into their realization. 

At any rate, I’m convinced that Utopia beats religion by a very, very long shot, because of its reservoir of possibilities on this earth and not into some imaginary, improbable and questionable space or dimension. So for today, I’ll stick with a Utopian outlook!