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Why Religion is a necessity of living a Good Life.
Importance of Religion
Disclaimer: This article is generalized and no religion is targeted; Just a Psychological impact of religion on mind and society is discussed.
Religion is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as:
“The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.”
The sociologist Durkheim, in his seminal book The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, defined religion as a “unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things.”
Essentially, religion is the relation between the individual and the supernatural which is based on the belief that there exist some supernatural entities which created and govern the world. The origin of religion is lost in the obscure past of human evolution and is believed to have developed gradually with the evolution of humans from their primate ancestors. It is a unique feature of man-kind though some primates are known to show pre-moral sentiments of appreciation of the aesthetic, self-consciousness, sympathy and empathy for other members of the kind, etc. which are considered to be pre-emptive steps of spirituality which breeds religion.
Religion is an important part of life for many people. Even people who are not all that…
