Dec 1, 2019, 8:55 AM
What’s the difference between the hunt and resulting feast, throwing a piece of meat on the fire to thank nature for her bounty, dancing around a fire that night to tell the story with moral heroic or tragic framing, with everyone drumming, chanting, singing, or reciting along – and religion?
Absolutely nothing. That’s the purpose religion fulfills: the pack is happy together, and we are happy, calm, safe, ‘belonging’, within it: mindfulness.
Then there are people who use religion for evil: and those are the fundamentalists who have lost the point, either out of insecurity or need for sense of agency – when they have none.