Educated versus Popular Religion

robinrohan writes:ER is the accurate version, but this is not saying that someone who embraces PR is not authentically religious, and it is also not to say that someone who purportedly embraces ER IS authentically religious. It depends on the individual.

Websters writes:religion \ri-li-jen\ n 1 : the service and worship of God or the supernatural 2 : devotion to a religious faith 3 : a personal set or institutionalized system of religious beliefs, attitudes, and practices 4 : a cause, principle, or belief held to with faith and ardor religionist n

robinrohan writes:If you want facts you go to science. If you want meaning, you go to religion. You can also go to the local bar, of course, which can be religious in its own way. (The meaning at the local bar is that there is no meaning. But when two or three come together at the local bar in the name of Nothing, then Nothing is with them. So saith their patron saint, Ernest Hemingway).PR at its sincere core is the same as ER, but also has all sorts of absurdities attached to it which are the result of a lack of religious education. But as I said before, religion is not just for the educated but for everyone, so PR is a natural phenomenon.To be frank, to ER the Christ story is MYTHOS, not LOGOS, which means that it is a story meant to illustrate an idea but which is not meant to be taken literally. But of course, the "Christ story" is not to be confused with the historical life of Jesus. The same can be said for the story of Mohammed or Moses.

Ifen writes:And who is the actor playing the role?