![]() |
Image Subject to Copyright: Source Unknown. |
Religions serve as powerful emotional stabilizers; the human species tenaciously adheres to the existence of deities – external beings or powers stronger than individual selves.
Religion – how can it be so wrong in describing reality (versus as we know it today) and still attract world wide acceptance and billions of believers? Because it addresses and offers the most basic and powerful human need – an association with and guarantor of our individual physiological continuity.
This association, of course, is an intellectually fabricated analogy, metaphor or symbol representing the root function and activity of nature: Continuity – which we commonly describe as "survival."
Science does not offer psychological continuity and, for that reason, cannot usurp and replace religion – no matter how revealing, convincing or awe inspiring its discoveries or powerful its tested propositions.
(This Article is under development.)
Copyright
All content, text, information and images are © 2013–2022 Christoph G. Olesch, unless otherwise noted, and may not be reproduced without permission. Certain material, information and images may be subject to copyrights by their respective owners, as indicated, and may not be reproduced without their written permission. The Dialogs reserves the right to edit or delete all comments, in order to main standards of appropriateness as determined solely by The Dialogs. All Rights Reserved.