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  • Fewer and fewer people believe nowadays.

  • It's possible that in a generation, there simply won't be religion across Europe and large sections of north America, Australia and Asia.

  • That 's not necessarily a problem.

  • But it's worth thinking about why people made up religion in the first place

  • and what we're doing with the needs and longings that led them to do so.

  • At one level, religions are about asking us to believe in something.

  • And when people say they can't believe, they tend to stop right there with the whole religion business.

  • And often point out all the horrid things that religions have undoubtedly done and continue to do.

  • But in this sense, belief is almost the least important and definitely the least interesting side of religion.

  • What's fascinating is all the other stuff religions get up to.

  • For example, the way they regularly gather people around and,

  • strikingly, tell them to be nice to one another.

  • Or the way they create a sense of community,

  • acting as hosts, making sure that granny and the child, the big chief and the little guy

  • learn to see each other as human beings rather than abstract entities.

  • Religions use rituals to point stuff out to us and lodge it in our fickle minds.

  • For example, that the seasons are changing or that it's the time to remember your ancestors.

  • That the moon looks pretty

  • or you can atone and make a fresh start.

  • or that it's rather amazing that there's food on the table.

  • Religions know we're not just intellectual creatures

  • so they carefully appeal to us via art and beauty

  • We think of beauty in one category a frivolous and superficial thing, and truth and depth in an another

  • Religions join them together.

  • They build temples, cathedrals, and mosques that use beauty to lend depth to important ideas.

  • They use the resources of art to remind us of what matters.

  • Their art is didactic.

  • It's directed at making us feel things

  • calm

  • pity

  • awe

  • We may no longer believe, but the needs and longings

  • that made us make up these stories go on.

  • We're lonely

  • and violent

  • We long for beauty, wisdom, and purpose.

  • We want to live for something more than just ourselves.

  • Society tells us to direct our hopes in two areas

  • Romantic love and professional success.

  • And it distracts us with news, movies, and consumption.

  • It's not enough, as we know.

  • Especially at three in the morning.

  • We need reminders to be good,

  • places to reawaken awe,

  • something to awaken our kinder, less selfish impulses.

  • Universal things which need tending like delicate flowers

  • and rituals that bring us together.

  • The choice isn't between religion and a secular world as it is now.

  • The challenge is to learn from religions

  • so we can fill the secular world with replacements for the things we long ago made up religion to provide.

  • The challenge begins here.

Fewer and fewer people believe nowadays.

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宗教の後に来るもの (What Comes After Religion)

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