To believe or not to believe
Imagine one big white column. That is your religion. That is something that you can define and that you can keep to. It is also something that you can go back and ask for guidance from. It is a reference point. Why do you need it? So far logic leads to loose strands... It doesn't lead to contradictions but it can lead to self sustaining theories - not quite sure what these are, but they might be along the lines of "I'm one of many therefore I think like the many". Or "everybody before me thought the meaning of life was to have kids, then that's probably the meaning of life", or something along those lines I hope. The problem with this is that it doesn't keep you from having a self destructing behaviour, it doesn't keep you from making bad decisions aka it doesn't provide a foot-hold. It provides a vast surface of ideas and possibilities but it doesn't provide a reference point. Because of that it's easy to go astray. I