>Religion is a set of symbols and metaphors that provides

>>8406988

>shill

go back to your containment board. btw you are destroying what little ground there is left for discourse on your containment board with that word. not that i expect you to stop using it any time soon despite this.

>>8406998
i didn't call him a shill, I asked if he was one

>>8406988
I mean... I guess? I mean if you're an anticlerical religious believer, God is personal to you and institutions suck sometimes. Therefore, if you're a Christian, you use symbols like the Holy Ghost, the Father, or the Son to help communicate what you believe God to be. Or if you're a Muslim, you believe God to be an all-encompassing entity and the only entity you submit to. So symbols and metaphors are alright, shit Dostoevsky and Kierkegaard were probably (to an extent) on that train. I just don't know if that reduces religion to mythology, and if it does if that's the best way to go about it. It'd be like a Muslim saying he's a Muslim yet dismissing blatant passages in the Qur'an or not acknowledging the militant actions of Muhammad.