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Greg Burgin's avatar

At it's core, participation in religion is a reaction to freedom. Religions typically impose a code of behavior for it's members and often others. It's also true that many participants in religion pick and choose tenets like they're at a religious smorgasbord. I say it's reactionary because many of these tenets tell participants what things need to be controlled. We can make quite a list of all these things but I don't think we need to. Sometimes, reaction to freedom found in religious participation is harnessed by a government, again to limit freedom. To bring it under control. Whether participants in a religion are a defacto branch of a government or even oppose it, I'd like to paraphrase a favorite line of mine by Ford in Westworld. "The people are free here, under our control".

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Roy's avatar

Life is a journey. Problem solving takes more than an opinion. I'm afraid to say, it usually takes a great loss before many can realize fact. Religion is a way of life, too many say they are religious, but aren't.

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