Does religion not give people a firm grip at life?
Does it not lie out all which life has to offer, and
deprive individuals of wondering?
Religion keeps structure in our still-insane world.
People do not wonder, they do not question truth
because for them, they “know” what to live for;
they believe they know the truth, written in their holy scripture.
They are conditioned to believe certain reasoning, say, from their caregivers, teachers, friends. But they are not to blame.
Mankind cannot stand not knowing.
For if they did never know the truth, it would drive them insane wondering. “To explain the unexplainable, they come up with myths” (Bradley). They need to be confident that they are stable in life - that they do not live in a mere illusion - that they are experiencing ‘reality’.
What they do not know, they make up, they lie, they deceive themselves, by filling in the unknown with anything to satisfy their fear.
Religion explains everything to them, so they need not panic.
They fear what they do not know. It is much easier to believe in the lie, than to find out the ‘real’ ‘truth’. Whether a statement is true is an entirely different question from whether you or anybody believes it. Likewise, there can be truths that no one believes.
As a matter of fact – there are. And so, this society is so entwined with stories that it has become a fabric of it’s own being.
Are you really interested in unreal reality, catch up with the coming blogs.
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