Hey Adam,
YOU WROTE:
...I knew most of the common reasons offered to explain [religion]:
upbringing, an explanation of creation, hope of life after death, the
security of a big brother figure looking after you, the security of
belonging to a group, to find love, and so on.
...I think that there is a deeper, more philosophical reason for this
attachment to religion. And of course what can you blame most things on?
SOM!
...with a subject/object metaphysical viewpoint, Good is merely subjective
and has no real importance if it's merely whatever you wish it to be. But
with religion you have a Good that truly exists and transcends everything...
...that is my theory,that religion is an attempt to find Quality in the face
of SOM.
---Sorry Adam, your theory just doesn't hold water... Pirsig places the
origins of SOM at around the time of Aristotle (384BC - 322BC).
Chrisitianity (obviously) doesn't show up for a few hundred years later, but
Judiasm goes back 3000+ years pre-SOM (Judiasm and Christianity are fairly
similar anyway). And religion itself goes back as far as history does.
Thus, it is impossible to give SOM any credit in the origin of the need for
religion. I think you were on the money with those first few reasons you
named.
No SOM boogeymen here chief...
Onward, ho...
rick
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