Eternity (Origins)

by dhw, Thursday, November 28, 2013, 14:35 (4011 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: Yours is a strange interpretation of my comment. Life is meant to be a challenge or how do you prove yourself? I think like my Susan, things are meant to happen for a reason. You had severe maleria and found Lisbeth. Great result, yes? And for most of civilized and uncivilized life folks have looked for and to a theistic level of reality. There is a deeper meaning here.-You began by referring to Karen Armstrong's belief that religion was inbuilt. I offered two possible explanations: the need to explain the inexplicable, and the hope that some greater power might help us to overcome the dangers and insecurities of life on Earth. You argued that it was uncivilized tribes that felt danger and insecurity. I pointed out that this was common to all humanity. But my two reasons do not mean that worshippers are deluding themselves. Nor do they mean that life is not a challenge. Whether there is a deeper meaning to all of this, or religion merely reflects the human desire for a deeper meaning, remains to be seen ... or not seen, as the case may be!