I noticed a lot of community/social-oriented aspects in your take on religion, but not “an immortal man literally made the sun move and dance in the sky, and by the way he made that sun” aspects. Could you, as a self-described religious person, see yourself or others separate the community piece from the belief in magic/miracles kind of stuff? I ask because it seems to me that a lot of people take the former as the part they value, and the supernatural stuff is taken as a neccessary add-on without much discussion/consideration (the whole faith thing). I see religious organizations as really successful when they focus on community, but don’t talk much about the supernatural stuff much outside of formal gatherings (mass, temple, mosque, whatever). If not, why religion? Why not just engage with community and ignore the whole omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent, kind of stuff?
I noticed a lot of community/social-oriented aspects in your take on religion, but not “an immortal man literally made the sun move and dance in the sky, and by the way he made that sun” aspects. Could you, as a self-described religious person, see yourself or others separate the community piece from the belief in magic/miracles kind of stuff? I ask because it seems to me that a lot of people take the former as the part they value, and the supernatural stuff is taken as a neccessary add-on without much discussion/consideration (the whole faith thing). I see religious organizations as really successful when they focus on community, but don’t talk much about the supernatural stuff much outside of formal gatherings (mass, temple, mosque, whatever). If not, why religion? Why not just engage with community and ignore the whole omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent, kind of stuff?