Jun 10, 2021
I agree that a religious sensibility is useful and perhaps crucial for existential growth. This is partly because I think we're naturally story-telling creatures (link below), and we're motivated by the stories that serve as myths (even if these often come now from Hollywood).
But I'm with Nietzsche who said we need a viable modern religion, the old ones having to resort to fraud now even if just to cover up their incompatibility with modern knowledge. The search for a modern religion led to the dystopian faiths of Marxist communism and Nazism. Is there, then, a nondystopian modern religion in the offing or are we left with the anachronistic cons or with capitalistic social Darwinism (a watered-down version of Nazism)?
