[lit-ideas] Re: Bizarre Faith
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 12:19:35 EST
If there aren't religions to choose from, people develope them. A way of
explaining the mysterious and frightening. Religion, I think, is our attempt
to tell ourselves a story to make sense out of things, like a Mother tells her
child a story at night wherein the bad guys lose and the good guys win, to
help the child to feel all will be well. A kid's plea for a story at night
comes from the same place in us that desires explanations for death and pain
and everything else we grapple with that's bigger than us. If there's no ....
rhyme or reason, system, set of rules or way we can appease the powers or
attempt to sway them.... we are too loosely flung in the universe. We
psychologically need a tether. We are powerless over certain things --
natural
disaster, disease, death. If there can be some power greater than us that
*does*
have power over what we are powerless over, we want to know about it and
petition aid or attempt to sway the forces that be in our interests. I love
the
way two books approach this -- Joseph Campbell's "Power of Myth" and "Why God
Won't Go Away: Brain Science & the Biology of Belief" by Newberg & D'Aquili
(I've mentioned it here before, but don't know if anyone else here has read
it -- I thought it quite fascinating).
Julie Krueger
inbetween tethers
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11/4/04 10:12:30 AM Central Standard Time From: _pas@xxxxxxxxx
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Can anyone tell me WHY they are religious?
Other than: "I was taught to be"
Really wanting to know why ANYONE would "choose" religion.
Paul
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Paul Stone
pas@xxxxxxxx
Kingsville, ON, Canada
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