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Originally Posted by Lejina Bloodbath  Millie already gave a pretty good explanation of this (post # 152), so you may be best to just go there. She's better a writer than I am and I would pretty much just rehash the same ideas anyway. But shortly put, humans fear the unknown (is there a stronger, more visceral and universal emotion than fear?) and to create explanations for the unknown, even if they are complete fairy tales, is comforting and makes us feel better. |
Right, and I don't object to it per se, but I think limiting it to fear is really reductionist. The traditional territory of religion is faith, hope and love, which, incidentally enough, are emotions capable of being stronger than fear.
Any who, people are going to run off cliffs without parachutes whether its for religious reasons or secular reasons; dunno why I'm so predisposed to apologizing for the former.