Existential Comfort Without God
Religion isn&#x27;t just about comfort as the article presumes. Article is very naive from the perspective of any serious practicing believer. It&#x27;s really about Truth.<p>Let&#x27;s use a more modern story as an example: The Simulation Theory. We are in a simulation etc., etc. If reality is a like a video game, and we&#x27;re characters being &#x27;rendered&#x27; by the Universe client, how could anyone probe into what the nature of the simulation is? How can any process or group of people ask the right question to find out what exactly is the substrate on which the simulation is being simulated?<p>Many ancient religions are attempting to do just this. They are trying to peek at the true nature of reality. The words and stories are written in ancient vocabulary, but this doesn&#x27;t mean ancient peoples were talking nonsense. Even if parts of it are wrong, the main premise of all religions is that the supernatural exists. Something that science is by design unable to probe, just like someone inside the simulation will not be able to look at its own source code.<p>If you want to dismiss the supernatural, first you must define the true nature of reality.