THE PURPOSE OF RELIGION? Religion like creativity, provides a group evolutionary

THE PURPOSE OF RELIGION?

Religion like creativity, provides a group evolutionary strategy, loosely constructed in myth and literature. It creates decidability in matters of collective ambition.

Morality like creativity provides general rules of behavior, loosely constructed as shoulds and should nots. Morals, ethics, manners.

Law like science provides the negative: That which we may not do, because it impedes our group evolutionary strategy. It creates decidability in matters of interpersonal dispute.

KNOWLEDGE PROCESS

Observation > Free Association > Hypothesis > Theory > Physical Law

GROUP STRATEGY PROCESS

Competition > Strategy > Religion > Morality > Judicial Law

That’s probably profound – at least for most people.