Religion

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Religion is an Ideological Institution setup and organized by the Accumulating Classes to satisfy our Cognitive Need to know and understand (one of our Seven Essential Needs) by providing System friendly answers to life's Big Questions.

Related Terms

Religion > Narrative, Sacrilization

Definitions

William James "Were one asked to characterize the life of religion in the broadest and most general terms possible, one might say that it consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto."[1]

Footnotes

  1. James, William. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature (p. 53). Kindle Edition.