“A people's religion, their faith,
creates their culture, and their culture creates their civilization.
And when faith dies, the culture dies, the civilization dies, and the
people begin to die.'” (Pat Buchanan)
I would add to the above wise statement
something that occurs even before religion begins this line of
classification: Life, biology, activates a people's religion as a
means not only to create a culture that can help the people successfully survive and reproduce, but more
than religion or science has yet to acknowledge, life is activated by
the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood which seeks to activate life, working within the natural material world, to evolve toward the zenith of evolution, or Godhood---and that is the true
beginning of religion, which was only first symbolized in the
traditional religions....A lost Christian faith irretrievable in the
West? No, a faith that needs transforming.
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