My personal definition for “religion” has always been roughly “the belief that values (including ethics, aesthetics, or mores, and I guess including “numinous mysterious holiness”) are somehow embedded or expressed in the ontologically fundamental ordering principles of the Universe (maybe, but not necessarily, because some conscious being used such values to choose those principles)”. If you believe that, you have some kind of relationship with the problem of evil. If you don’t, you don’t...
I’m not so sure about the “love” stuff. Personally, I’ve never thought about whether I was “unconditionally committed” to reality, or about whether I “loved” it in any way. I’m stuck with reality, so why would it matter? Does anybody get to that sort of thought if they don’t have something like the problem of evil driving them to it?
My personal definition for “religion” has always been roughly “the belief that values (including ethics, aesthetics, or mores, and I guess including “numinous mysterious holiness”) are somehow embedded or expressed in the ontologically fundamental ordering principles of the Universe (maybe, but not necessarily, because some conscious being used such values to choose those principles)”. If you believe that, you have some kind of relationship with the problem of evil. If you don’t, you don’t...
I’m not so sure about the “love” stuff. Personally, I’ve never thought about whether I was “unconditionally committed” to reality, or about whether I “loved” it in any way. I’m stuck with reality, so why would it matter? Does anybody get to that sort of thought if they don’t have something like the problem of evil driving them to it?