(August 21, 2011 at 12:46 am)Shell B Wrote: I would be shocked if someone could find one thing religion provides that secularists aren't getting elsewhere.
What about spiritual solace? I don't mean, like, ghosts and stuff. I mean things like how to cope with the fact that one is extremely small compared with all the big stuff out there, sorrow, how can I deal with the fact that one's daughter in law is a monster?, that it seems impossible to find friendship in the teeming city, that kinda stuff? How can I cope with my emotional issues? (all these hypothetical btw - mostly)
These kinda things are no good if you have to write a cheque at the end. Kinda knocks the socks off the deal. Seems to me anyway. Not that I give a toss. But lots of folk seem to want (need?) that kinda stuff.