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What is religion good for?

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Message 1 of 4 (252309)
10-17-2005 12:36 AM

This follows up on the suggestion in Message 22.
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What is the value of religion, in the sense of its social role within society? And what is the value of religion to an individual?
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The question arises from the observation that many different societies have religions. Apparently religions tend to evolve, in the sense of cultural evolution. This suggests that religion brings some sort of value to societies.
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Many people are troubled by fundamentalism. In order to better understand it, we would need to know something about what brings people to fundamentalist religions.
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This is not a question about any particular religion, although answers might be different for different religions. This is intended as a science topic, not a faith topic, although the scientific issues might mainly concern the social sciences.
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Answers such as "to save your soul" are not welcome in this thread. A different thread could be proposed for that if anyone thinks it is appropriate.
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I suggest Creation/Evolution Miscellany for this.
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10-17-2005 12:40 AM 		Reply to: Message 1 by nwr
10-17-2005 12:36 AM

The forum???
How does this fit in misc topics in crea/evo?
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Isn't it more a "Social Issues and Creation/Evolution" or "Comparitive Religions"?
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10-17-2005 1:02 AM 		Reply to: Message 2 by AdminNosy
10-17-2005 12:40 AM

Re: The forum???
I will have to leave it to your judgement as to where it should go.
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Perhaps Social Issues in Creation/Evolution would be better. My main concern was that this not be discussed as a religious topic.
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10-17-2005 1:19 AM

Thread copied to the What is religion good for? thread in the Social Issues and Creation/Evolution forum, this copy of the thread has been closed.
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