Name: 宗教の後に来るもの (What Comes After Religion)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T06:19:41.000Z
Duration: 3 min 35 s
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様態の副詞

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

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.

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

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.

We may no longer believe, but the needs and longings

that made us make up these stories go on.

We want to live for something more than just ourselves.

Society tells us to direct our hopes in two areas

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

something to awaken our kinder, less selfish impulses.

Universal things which need tending like delicate flowers

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

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