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Those activities don't help much when you encounter the really big challenges in life. Spirituality offers frameworks for dealing with, and often embracing, ma
by ISL 6y ago
Those activities don't help much when you encounter the really big challenges in life.
Spirituality offers frameworks for dealing with, and often embracing, many of the questions for which there may never be a satisfactory answer.
Whether you believe the postulates of a religion or not, there a ton of higher-level lessons to be learned from those who do.
- WJW 6y agoYou make it seem like religion is some sort of prerequisite for gaining wisdom, while at best it seems to be orthogonal. For example, reading philosophy from both modern and ancient sources can provide the framework you mention without ever getting all that close to the trappings of traditional religions. There are tons of higher level lessons to be learned from both religious and non-religious sources.
- encryptluks2 6y agoI'd even go as far to say the "wisdom" gained in church is often far less insightful than the wisdom gained from a pure moral and philosophical perspective.