[MD] Religious experience & thinking in an MOQ context

[Scott Roberts]

David M,

DM said [to SA];
I would simply say that religion was about how to
live your life and how to come to terms with existence
as we find it. We are thrown as innocents into existence,
we find beauty, creation, destruction and death and constant change.
We must die ourselves. Before that we need to live together on this
singular plane. What else is there?

Scott:
I disagree. I think James was correct when he characterized religion as (I'm 
paraphrasing) (a) the recognition that there is something fundamentally 
wrong with us (e.g. Original Sin, Buddhist Ignorance, Hindu Maya), and (b) 
that dealing with this wrongness, because it is fundamental, involves 
something beyond "existence as we find it" (for Christians, God's Grace, for 
Buddhists, mystical insight, etc.).

- Scott