My thesis is that most people, including the overwhelmingly atheist and non-religious rationalist crowd, would be better off if they actively participated in an organized religion.
My argument is roughly that religions uniquely provide a source of meaning, community, and life guidance not available elsewhere, and to the extent anything that doesn’t consider itself a religion provides these, it’s because it’s imitating the package of things that makes something a religion.
I would have liked to see the post focus more on the second paragraph. I feel like the post very minimally focused on it and instead, the majority of the post was on related topics like which religion one should choose.
Fair enough, but I don’t have much to say here beyond what I’ve sketched above. I could write a lot of words expanding it, but I don’t think it would help, because it’s ultimately something best proven or disproven through experience by actually engaging with religion in a non-antagonistic way. So I understand why you and a lot of people want this, I just don’t think it’d actually teach you anything because you’d come away from what I wrote knowing as much as you do based off this single paragraph.
I would have liked to see the post focus more on the second paragraph. I feel like the post very minimally focused on it and instead, the majority of the post was on related topics like which religion one should choose.
Fair enough, but I don’t have much to say here beyond what I’ve sketched above. I could write a lot of words expanding it, but I don’t think it would help, because it’s ultimately something best proven or disproven through experience by actually engaging with religion in a non-antagonistic way. So I understand why you and a lot of people want this, I just don’t think it’d actually teach you anything because you’d come away from what I wrote knowing as much as you do based off this single paragraph.