RE: Is Allegorical Religion better than Fundamentalism?
April 1, 2022 at 12:07 am
(This post was last modified: April 1, 2022 at 12:14 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Religion and religious apprehension can be the path from the bottom up, too. I know I use the example alot, but a religion of nature. Without god gods or animating spirits of any kind. Where the full and accurate explanation for the statue - which could be the object of reverence on a mountain or a modest hill in new york is completely natural, nature metaphysically ultimate - and thus all of the valid context of religious experience to be found in what we might otherwise call the mundane.
A person who holds such a religion is unlikely to call it mundane, ofc. Stonehenge may not be perched on a cliff, but it's pretty damned magnificent. Any rate, a religion of nature is a literalist or fundamentalist religion. It means exactly what it says and systematically builds it's coherent worldview on the basis of those few assertions. No analogies or metaphors or intermediaries required.
A person who holds such a religion is unlikely to call it mundane, ofc. Stonehenge may not be perched on a cliff, but it's pretty damned magnificent. Any rate, a religion of nature is a literalist or fundamentalist religion. It means exactly what it says and systematically builds it's coherent worldview on the basis of those few assertions. No analogies or metaphors or intermediaries required.
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