Religion provides structure for thought and social interactions
Date created: 2022-07-14
The structure is helpful in that it helps us navigate a complex world.
Your religion says you must live a certain way. It tells you what is valuable and what is disgusting. It gives you your fundamental paradigm and ontology of belief through which you interpret the world. It tells you to read certain texts, listen to certain traditions of wise men, and meet with like-minded others at certain places and times. It tells you to avoid certain influences, and seek out others. It gives you techniques for structuring thought and mind and memory. When you have doubts, it gives you procedures to ask for and receive insight. It tells you who you are, and what your life is for.
References
- Terry Davis Was Right (satire but this quote was useful anyway)