It is obvious that all religion is escapism but it’s not so obvious that all escapism is religion religion: belief in the net benevolence of things you cannot control if you commit to not observing them as well if you don’t look at it, it will be nice to you
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This seems more like "belief systems" than religions in James Carse's sense in "The Religious Case Against Belief"
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Yeah...I like Carse’s argument, but I don’t think he describes the typical religious sensibility in that book
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Yeah not at all. But I like religion so try to keep the differences sharp in my mind at least
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By my definition, as a Carsean believer, Mormonism isn’t even your actual religion
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By my generalization, everybody has a religion and there are no atheists. To map yours, take an inventory of your anti-matrices/matrixes. Worlds others seem able to entirely lose themselves in that you’ve convinced yourself don’t matter, and can safely skip participating in.
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