Musings of a Middle Aged Man

Does Religion Infantilize Its Followers?


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Religion and spirituality are both concerned with humanity's role in the sacred. Religion tends to be institutionalized, communal, and governed by dogmatic doctrines. Spiritually (but not religious) is geared toward the individual and heavily experiential, rendering it more fluid than the static state characterizing religion. The notion of the sacred typically revolves around god, goddesses, ultimate reality, or other transcendental dimensions governing life. Both can be expressed at multiple levels and powerfully shape values, identity, and the behaviors they define as ethical. Both have potential for profound good and devastating harm, especially when they devolve into fanaticism, exclusion, guilt, or abuse.


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Musings of a Middle Aged ManBy David Olson