"I think Otto Rank had it right -- all culture because it's so important to human beings is in the broadest sense religious" So, are you religious because you have a culture? I'm a simple man and I can't get the concept. In my way of thinking religion is one of the many aspects of culture but not the only one and many times is absent fro…
"I think Otto Rank had it right -- all culture because it's so important to human beings is in the broadest sense religious" So, are you religious because you have a culture? I'm a simple man and I can't get the concept. In my way of thinking religion is one of the many aspects of culture but not the only one and many times is absent from a society's culture, and at individual level I have known many people who have not a grain of religiosity (in the form of supernatural beliefs or practice of rituals) but tons of spirituality in appreciation of the arts and literature. And I agree with the idea that religion makes good people better and bad people worse. here in America, we have a good example when we consider the actions of two of our current Ex presidents, both of them born again Christians: Jimmy Carter who never initiated a war and George W. bush who committed serial mass murder and torture around the world.
"I think Otto Rank had it right -- all culture because it's so important to human beings is in the broadest sense religious" So, are you religious because you have a culture? I'm a simple man and I can't get the concept. In my way of thinking religion is one of the many aspects of culture but not the only one and many times is absent from a society's culture, and at individual level I have known many people who have not a grain of religiosity (in the form of supernatural beliefs or practice of rituals) but tons of spirituality in appreciation of the arts and literature. And I agree with the idea that religion makes good people better and bad people worse. here in America, we have a good example when we consider the actions of two of our current Ex presidents, both of them born again Christians: Jimmy Carter who never initiated a war and George W. bush who committed serial mass murder and torture around the world.