RE: What human purpose does religion fill?
September 7, 2015 at 12:50 am
(This post was last modified: September 7, 2015 at 1:26 am by Anomalocaris.)
(September 7, 2015 at 12:47 am)Whateverist the White Wrote:(September 6, 2015 at 11:40 pm)kramazeek Wrote: I've often wonder why people gravitate towards religion and have found that the answer is difficult to find amongst those that do no believe. So let's spitball; what does religion provide that logic day to day existence does not? What did those that existed two thousand years ago get from an unprovable fantasy? The mind or the ego wanted something; what?
Logic doesn't and never will tell you what moves you or what will bring you fulfillment. For that you have to look to something within which is not answerable to logic. That is where religion got its toe-hold.
In other words, people need religion to lie to them, to reassure them things whose real basis in actualities can't be admitted to is instead well founded upon something made up that is putatively glamourous.
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