Give us a better story then. Or point at one that produces Hope and Faith in you, when you have experienced suffering. All religious text give us story, imager

Give us a better story then. Or point at one that produces Hope and Faith in you, when you have experienced suffering. All religious text give us story, imagery and ritual. Why? Because they are the tools available to produce Faith. Faith in those suffering, that tomorrow will be a better day. The tools evolve and change. New tools are discovered. Yet with all the tooling and knowledge we still have, producing Faith and Hope in those suffering still is very much a non-trivial problem. We fuck it up all the time because of how hard the problem is. To not look at religious text, all religious text, is to not look deeply at what attempts people have made - with the tools of story, imagery and ritual - to produce Faith in those who need it. I was no big fan of religion growing up. But the older you get the more ppl who stumble, will knock at your door looking for hope/energy/faith etc. And no one taught me how to generate it in others. So I did the usual stuff of giving them cash, shelter, listening, sending them to a shrink etc etc. And where that doesn't work out or fails in spectacular ways, thats when a good story is all you have left. So keep looking for a good one.