Thread:User talk:Armondikov/"You'll grow out of your rebellious phase."/reply (14)

There are plenty of cases where people just say "so what religion should I choose?" - few seem to contemplate the possibility of "no religion" and the idea that they could answer it themselves. And this I think you shouldn't confuse with more free philosophical thought, I'm talking about religion in the sense of a big belief system that prescribes beliefs. You can ponder "deep" questions, you might even say that we're drawn to asking them, but that's not the same as having to go running to someone to tell you the answers. Hence conversions to Buddhism, Scientology and Spiritual Not Religious - and the excuse is always that "I need to find the right religion".

So if, by magic I'll admit, the idea that you need religion or that religion has the exclusive hold on "deep" questions went away, then people would probably not choose to keep up with it. "Overnight" might be a bit hyperbolic, but what actually keeps people religious apart from the idea that religion holds the exclusive pass on certain aspects of thinking?