Societies have beliefs, about underlying universe nature, that result in worship of higher powers {religion}.
topics
Religion involves faith, commitment, sacredness, miracles, feeling, mysticism, inspiration, religious language, and sacred writing. Religion involves heaven, hell, life after death, incarnation, immortality, and soul. Religion involves knowledge unity, integration, life meaning, universe causes, universe principles, universals, harmony, oneness, perfection, unity, and pluralism.
good and evil
Goodness and evil relate to sin, guilt, and forgiveness. Religion involves perfection, sin, morals, personal responsibility, laws, and free will.
gods
Religion studies existence, proofs, nature, and attributes of gods.
institutions
Religious institutions have sacraments and rituals.
culture
Rituals, emotions, beliefs, and rules differ in different cultures and religions, with many opposites.
purposes
Relieve fear and anxiety about death. Make people sacred. Control impulses. Control aggression. Provide consistent morals. Support social norms and values by sanctifying them. Ensure compliance with norms by emphasizing obedience, humility, and fatalism. Cleanse people of guilt. Provide fellowship. Provide beauty. Provide rituals for important family and social acts. Simplify life and thought but not too much. Posit spiritual world. Give outlet for prayer. Explain nature. Provide meaning to life. Provide beliefs, some supernatural. Provide power to dependent or weak. Provide significance. Provide identity. Provide group with shared moral beliefs. Give purpose to suffering and frustration. Give more meaning to victories and achievements.
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